Synergies
AgRibot aims to bring smart, automated robots to real farms across Europe, taking on tasks like weeding, pruning, and harvesting. By integrating AI and AR/XR technologies, the project reduces farmers’ workloads, addresses labour shortages, and contributes to a more sustainable, tech-ready future for European agriculture.
The agricultural sector faces numerous challenges, including hazardous working conditions, repetitive labor, and increasing demands from digitalisation, climate change, and economic pressures. These factors contribute to high accident rates and make the sector less appealing to younger generations. AGRO-WELL takes an interdisciplinary approach to support a sustainable transformation of agriculture by improving occupational safety and health (OSH) through innovative technologies. The project brings together experts, technology providers, and farmers from across Europe to assess needs, raise awareness of smart farming, and test five advanced technologies, such as robotics, augmented reality, and AI, to enhance working conditions, decision-making, and environmental performance in four farming systems. AGRO-WELL will also explore sustainable business models, support additional innovations through cascade funding, and deliver actionable policy recommendations. Dissemination efforts will ensure that project outcomes reach key stakeholders and contribute to long-term impact.
The ICAERUS project is exploring the potential of drones in European agriculture, forestry, and rural areas, and it focuses on five key applications: crop monitoring, drone spraying, livestock monitoring, forestry and biodiversity, and rural logistics. The project aims to present the effective and safe deployment of drones, identifying both risks and benefits, and it includes “eye-in-the-sky” applications for observation, and “hand-in-the-sky” applications like spraying and delivery. Besides this, ICAERUS is also assessing socio-economic impacts, developing business models, and engaging with the wider drone community, to help bring the technologies/services closer to the market.
