Autonomous Orchard Sprayer Optimizes Use of Labour Improves Safety and Sustainability

Self reliant Sprayer Designed for Orchards and Vineyards

GUSS self maintaining airblast sprayers utilize GPS, LiDAR and exclusive energy to browse rows and spray plants. The draw is specifically crafted for orchard and vineyard settings, where accuracy, safety and security and effectiveness are major.

The GUSS change involves Orchard GUSS, Mini GUSS and Herbicide GUSS. A solitary driver can assemble as much as 8 GUSS equipments from another location by method of a laptop computer and securely outdoors the spray area.

Because its starting in 2018, GUSS Automation has actually released added than 250 equipments around the area, splashing added than 1 million hectares/2.6 million acres and logging 500,000+ self maintaining hours. GUSS sprayers have actually furthermore been generally checked at the John Deere Parla Advancement Centre in Madrid, Spain. European manufacturers of almonds, walnuts, olives, grapes, and varied orchard plants offered the sprayers high marks for effectiveness, precision and general effectiveness.

” GUSS is a tremendous instance of just how innovation is repairing precise-world obstacles in orchard and vineyard manufacturing,” recognized Javier Fernández, John Deere’s High Charge Crops Production Story Manager for Europe. “Their methods instantly attend to work lacks, safety and security problems and sustainability targets.”

GUSS Automation became managed John Deere in August 2025 as sector of a joint goal developed in 2022. John Deere is presently dealing with qualification and homologation procedures to offer GUSS sprayers throughout Europe by method of John Deere dealerships.

Smooth Note Accuracy Cleave Spraying

At the facility of the GUSS draw is the Smooth Note Accuracy splashing innovation. Smooth Note changes chemical dosages for each nozzle generally based upon tree or creeping plant fallen leave thickness, guaranteeing the spray is used most convenient where it’s desired.

This focused method minimizes drift, aids food safety and security and supplies quantifiable monetary cost savings. Smooth Note has actually shown chemical decreases of as much as 67% in orange trees and 51% in wineries, straightening thoroughly with European sustainability targets and regulative assumptions. Reduction chemical usage no more most convenient minimizes prices, it furthermore benefits the ambience and prolonged-term dirt and slit wellness.

Upcoming Area Presentation in Toulouse, France

On Thursday, 5 February 2026, participants at the FIRA occasion in Toulouse can appreciate the GUSS reel in activity. It is just one of numerous occasions that can take area at the Agrobiopôle house in Auzeville-Tolosane– the kick-off factor for FIRA’s 2026 GOFAR World Tour.

Look the elephantine routine of presentations and list of exhibitors at gofar-tour.com.