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CROP PROTECTION

XAG REVEALS NEW-GENERATION DRONES AND

ROBOTS FOR AGRIFUTURE

XAG Annual Conference 2021 was A More Scalable Self-
held in Guangzhou, China with the driving Platform
theme “Step into Agrifuture”, which
launched a series of agricultural in- Based on its accumulated experience
novations to empower farmers with in agricultural autonomous driving and
more sophisticated autonomous solu- AI training, XAG has made further
tions. Five new products, including the technological upgrades to the R150
XAG P50 and P100 Agricultural Drone, Unmanned Ground Vehicle. The new
XAG M500 and M2000 Remote Sensing XAG V50 Agricultural Drone generation of XAG R150 is a scalable
Drone, and the updated XAG R150 Un- Back to the past, the agricultural open payload platform that can be em-
manned Ground Vehicle, are released drone is unable to work without net- barked with different task systems for
in China and will be available for global work signals because its autonomous high-precision crop spraying, fertilis-
sales in 2022. ation, and mowing.
flight relies on the RTK signal of the 4G The improved RevoMower 2.0 sys-
network. Now with the more advanced
SuperX 4 Pro flight control system, the tem facilitates grass cutting on complex
XAG P100 and V50 can remain steady, terrains such as farmland, mudflats,
and orchards. Featured the 6-kilowatt
high-accuracy operation around farms cutting power and dual-blade struc-
even with weak internet infrastructure.
It brings farmers the new possibility to ture, XAG R150 can control weeds
operate in a “networkless” area. and handle small shrubs with ease on
farms. Users will no longer need t to
XAG has also upgraded the three task sit on a manual driving mower where
XAG P100 Agricultural Drone systems on both P100 and V50 Agri- they suffered from loud noise, dust, and
cultural Drone to further improve effi- mosquitoes.
Over the past eight years, XAG has ciency and precision in various appli-
been successfully scaling up its agri- cation scenarios. The XAG RevoSpray
cultural drones across 42 countries and 2.0 system adopts the intelligent rota-
regions to bridge the digital divide in ry atomization technology that allows
rural areas. The newly updated farm- fine droplets to be accurately sprayed
ing drones and robots not only enrich between the size of 40-600μm, and
XAG’s six smart agriculture product therefore greatly cut down the use of
lines, but also leapfrog the previous pesticides.
models in terms of efficiency, precision,
and safety. They are full of human-cen- The XAG RevoCast 2.0 system is re-
tred design to bring thoughtful care to designed with dual vertical centrifugal
users on farms. discs and novel smart screw feeder, The upgraded XAG 2022 R150
which can achieve a broadcast effi- Ground Vehicle
The More Effective ciency of 80 kg urea per minute. XAG In addition, XAG has added the Hy-
RealTerra 2.0 as the mapping module
Agricultural Drone can equip the drone with the ability to draulicSpray system as another task
The two new models of XAG Ag- survey a maximum area of 13 hectares system to its R150, allowing users to
rapidly assemble a group of liquid
ricultural Drone, P100 and V50, fol- per sortie in farmland and orchard. It pumps and pressure spray nozzles
low brand new principles from their supports real-time map stitching and is for crop protection in various farming
structural design to task systems. The able to generate high-definition field landscapes.
XAG P100 inherits the classical quad- map immediately once landing.
rotor structure with a 40 kg effective
payload, while the V50 adopts XAG’s
leading dual tilt-wing design to meet
the needs of different users based on
the farm size.
Both new drones are crafted in a
structure that can fully separate their
flying platform from task systems. This
means that they can switch flexibly be-
tween the function of crop spraying,
granule spreading and field survey. The R2022 150 installed with
Transportation and maintenance are HydraulicSpray system
also made much easier to increase P100 Agricultural Drone Owing to the SuperX 4 Pro Control
operation efficiency. equipped with RevoCast 2.0 System, XAG R150 can drive fully
system
autonomously for a longer duration.

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