- 2024 Automated Technology Field DayTensorfield was invited to participate and demo at the 2024 Agricultural Technology Field Day on Thursday, June 27, 2024. The event was organized by Steve Fennimore, Extension Vegetable Weed Control Specialist, UC …
- Tensorfield V3 “Jetty” robot shows significant spray improvements over V2Our latest robot, Jetty, brings a remarkable improvement in spray precision over its predecessor V2, our pre-commercial engineering prototype. With Jetty, we completely redesigned the heated thermal jetting manifold, packing 232 nozzles …
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- Tensorfield Jetty shortlisted for World FIRA Ag Robot of the Year 2024Tensorfield’s Jetty was one of five field and harvest robot finalists in the global Ag Robot of the Year 2024 award, organized by Future Farming and World FIRA. The five finalists were …
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- Commercial Alpha Unit TestingThe Tensorfield team has spent the last two years testing and refining our precision thermal weeder, culminating in the design and build of our commercial alpha unit which will be launching soon, …
- Tensorfield Agriculture Awarded Best Product for Product Managers in SustainabilityTensorfield won a Products That Count product award in the Sustainability category for 2023 with our Thermal Micro-Jetting (patent-pending) technology. As we are pre-launch at this stage, the award was surprising but …
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- Field Spray Testing – Thermal Micro-Jetting!The Tensorfield team spent most of 2022 field testing the viability of thermal micro-jetting for weed control on test fields based in Salinas with the help of Dr Steve Fennimore and John …
- Robotic Chassis Field TestingTensorfield has commenced field testing of its V2 robotic chassis in the Salinas valley here in California. Tensorbot’s small footprint enables easy transport to the fields with just a midsize pickup truck …
- Adventures in Freight ShippingWhen the pandemic struck earlier in the year, we decided we needed to move our prototypes from the workshop in Shenzhen (where we’d previously done all of our prototyping) to our office …
- Image Collection with SnappyFor image collection on customer sites, and to provide initial weed treatment quotations, a lightweight remote-controlled rover was designed and built for easy two-person maneuverability (named Snappy, as it snaps photographs at …
- Weed Detection DemoOur computer vision pipeline detects weeds within the seedline, even when weeds are a similar size or larger than the keeper crops. Our algorithm runs in real-time, allowing our thermal sprayers to …
- Robotic Testing PlatformTensorfield has constructed a modular robotic platform for testing of our automated thermal weeding payload. High power requirements due to the heating of vegetable oil to weed-lethal temperatures had to be accommodated …
- Thermal Micro-Dosing ExplainedThermal micro-dosing is a method of weed control in which extremely small doses of very hot vegetable oil are applied to post-emergent weeds in the most weed-challenged areas such as within the …
- Tensorfield Agriculture featured in Channel News Asia documentaryTensorfield Agriculture was featured in a Channel News Asia documentary covering the rise of China as the hardware capital of the world. We were interviewed at our SOSV/HAX Accelerator space and gave …
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- Tensorfield Pitches at TechCrunch Hardware BattlefieldTensorfield Agriculture was selected to present our herbicide-free thermal weeding prototype at the first TechCrunch Hardware Battlefield in Shenzhen China. We brought along our prototype: an automated precision sprayer applicable for all …
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- Agro Innovation Lab Robotics ChallengeThe Robotics Challenge was created by Agro Innovation Lab on behalf of BayWa and RWA, two of Europe’s biggest agricultural companies, to identify the most promising up-and-coming solutions in the areas of …
- Prototyping 101: Design and Test of a Heated Oil Delivery SystemOne of the major technical milestones for us was to design a system that would reliably and accurately deposit the correct quantities of heated vegetable oil on demand – i.e. spraying the …
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- Tensorfield on Voices of the Valley PodcastBack in March 2019, we recorded a podcast with Dennis Donohue, Director of the Western Growers Center for Innovation and Technology. Tensorfield Agriculture is building agricultural machines with a focus on applications …
- Tensorfield Awarded Wells Fargo Scholarship with Western GrowersTensorfield now has a residency with the Western Growers Center for Innovation and Technology! To help our members do more with less, Western Growers launched the Western Growers Center for Innovation and …
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