World Models Start Driving Farm Machinery
Scobleizer · x · 2026-07-15
Robert Scoble visited Reservoir Farms in Salinas, California, to check out autonomous agriculture projects, highlighting how Bonsai Robotics uses world models to power automated farming equipment.
The post mentions:
- Bonsai is already operating robotic farm equipment across multiple locations in Australia and the US
- CEO Tyler Niday previously spent years working on autonomous tractors at John Deere
- Reservoir Farms acts more like an incubator for autonomous farming machinery, offering around 40 acres of multi-crop testing, demo, and development space
He also emphasized that agricultural AI closely resembles autonomous cars and trucks in how it operates, though the training targets differ: tasks might involve picking apples or spraying crops rather than navigating pedestrian traffic.
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