AUVSI: Drone Market Looks for Boost in Farming Applications
As the Pentagon indicates that it will level off unmanned drone purchases through 2017, manufacturers of the robots are looking for the next big market, and they’ve found it in farmers, Wired reports.
According to Chris Mailey, a vice president with the drone promotion organization known as AUVSI, farming looks like the drone market with fewer impediments and bigger incentives for early technological adoption: