jochie and andrew bate realised their traditional tractors were compacting their soil too much, and inhing in at a slender 2,000kgs with a 75—horsepower diesel engine, fifth—generation bot november autonomously prowls paddocks on the hunt for invasive weeds. so, november‘s got 13 different infra—red cameras dotted along its back boom. and when it drives over weeds, it sees them and sprays some herbicide out one of its individual 65 nozzles. with such precision it can target those ha rd—to—kill weeds and i‘m told it can cut harmful herbicide usage by up to 98%, drastically reducing run—off. it can work day and night, it doesn‘t need a lunch break, and unlike me, it‘s not heading to the pub at the end of its shift. and what are these here? so, at the front of the machine we‘ve got these cameras, so we‘ve got three different lots of cameras, and they‘re actually our obstacle detection. so, what they do is build a ground plane out in front of the machine, and then any obstacles are built off that ground plane. so, if there‘s something that comes up that‘s unexpected, it will see it and sto