This automation tech turns old tractors into self-driving farming machines

Sabanto Tractors retrofits old machines to make them futuristic automated devices, helping farmers overcome staffing shortages.

Show me a farmer, said Mike Burdick, vice president of Sabanto, an autonomous tractor startup in Itasca, Illinois, and I’ll show you someone who has a million things he or she just doesn’t have time to do in the course of their workday. He’ll also show you a farmer who wouldn’t mind having their tractor ghost-ride across their fields as they take care of the endless work of being a modern farmer. 

That’s one of the central observations that has driven the growth of Sabanto’s autonomous tech. It’s a rig that can be attached to just about........

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