The creation of autonomous models of agricultural machinery with artificial intelligence that does not need piloting is planned for 2024-2025 - earlier than in other countries of the world, reported TASS в press service of the Association "InterAgroTech" with reference to General Director Natalia Filippova.
“Achieving full unmanned aerial vehicles is in the development plan of Russian companies by 2024-2025, ahead of the plans of foreign competitors. So our country is among the leaders in this area in the world, ”the press service quotes Filippova as saying.
It is clarified that now the majority of the market is made up of parallel driving systems - more than 95%. Less than 2-3% of the fleet of vehicles has real autonomy or intelligence. Today, a number of announced prototypes of agricultural machinery have the ability to autonomously control attachments and other functionality, but it is not yet known when they will enter the market.
The first national association of agricultural producers and industrialists in the agro-industrial complex of the full cycle "InterAgroTech" was created in 2022 with the participation of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia and the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia.
It includes several dozen companies. The Association lobbies and protects the interests of domestic manufacturers of technologies and other Russian-made products for the agro-industrial complex at the state level, helps to introduce promising mechanisms into the work of farmers.