Rusagro Launches Large-Scale Autonomous Driving Pilot with Cognitive Pilot

By The Robot Report

Cognitive Pilot has announced what it claimed is “the world’s largest autonomous driving project for agricultural machinery” with Rusagro Group LLC. The companies plan to test Cognitive Agro Pilot, a Level 3 autonomous driving system for combine harvesters, tractors, and sprayers.

Moscow-based Cognitive Pilot is a joint venture of Sberbank and Cognitive Technologies Group. The company has been working on automotive, mass-transit, agricultural, smart-city, and 4D radar technologies, as well as integration with third-party systems.

Moscow-based Rusagro Group is one of Russia’s largest agricultural businesses, producing pork, fats, and sugar. Its land reserves include more than 665,000 hectares (1.6 million acres). Rusagro’s partnership with Cognitive Pilot is being carried out within the federal Digital Technologies project, with is part of the Digital Economy of the Russian Federation initiative run by the Skolkovo Foundation.

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