Raven Industries is a Sioux Falls based agriculture technology company. It recently purchased the company Jaybridge Robotics’ intellectual property portfolio.
The new acquisition allows Raven to expand its research and development of driverless agriculture vehicles.
Dominic Walkes is the director of strategic initiatives at Raven. He says the company set out 18 months ago to grow its intellectual space.
“We set out on an initiative to really boldly grow our division in the company around an autonomy strategy, and bringing autonomy into agriculture in a meaningful way.”
Walkes also says agricultural autonomy technology is ever growing and should help the rural community.
The intellectual property acquisition includes patents related to path planning, obstacle detection and avoidance, and systems to control multiple machines.