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A quick intro to the Hands Free Hectare #HFHa project and the key members of the team based at Harper Adams University. Kit Franklin - Agricultural engineer, machinery/system specification and project management Jonathan Gill - Robotics engineer, technology specification and development Martin Abell - Agricultural engineer, technology, machinery and trial development ~The Hands Free Hectare aims to produce the first crop in the world to be grown completely autonomously - from establishment to harvest, no humans will enter the field. The project will modify existing small scale farm machinery to utilise control systems developed from open-source data, providing a low-cost route to on-farm machine control. Using small scale machinery will allow for more timely operations without risk of soil damage and also bring an inherent risk reduction. The project aims to be high profile and is not tide to any secrecy agreements. The publicised success of the project aims to negate the commonly held belief that Autonomy is complicated and out of reach of current technology, a thing of the distant future but rather establish it as a possibility now. http://www.harper-adams.ac.uk/ http://www.precisiondecisions.co.uk/ Twitter: @FreeHectare Facebook: @HandsFreeHectare