HFHa #8 Tractor outside under radio control

For the first time in the Hands Free Hectare project the Iseki TLE 3400 has been taken out of the lab for testing.
The tractor is operating by RC the first step prior to full autopilot navigation.
In the clips you can see the laser safety system cutting out the tractor on detection of an obstacle.

~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.