<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><ns2:project xmlns:ns1="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api" xmlns:ns2="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project" xmlns:ns3="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/fund" xmlns:ns4="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/person" xmlns:ns5="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project/outcome" xmlns:ns6="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/organisation" ns1:created="2026-07-08T08:44:08Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/projects/C5486836-7F5C-4F9C-83AB-7A464BB8333F" ns1:id="C5486836-7F5C-4F9C-83AB-7A464BB8333F"><ns1:links><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/persons/7146DD30-4A3A-4D33-9449-40F6727AF175" ns1:rel="PM_PER"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/D61A525D-1EF1-4BA1-8D68-54A8C967337D" ns1:rel="LEAD_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/54A4EBCC-7376-4E01-92E3-AB62DF0BDEBD" ns1:rel="PARTICIPANT_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/D61A525D-1EF1-4BA1-8D68-54A8C967337D" ns1:rel="PARTICIPANT_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:end="2017-09-29T23:00:00Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/funds/57154BEA-2242-4036-A676-ABAE95C19357" ns1:rel="FUND" ns1:start="2016-09-30T23:00:00Z"/></ns1:links><ns2:identifiers><ns2:identifier ns2:type="RCUK">132354</ns2:identifier></ns2:identifiers><ns2:title>Hands Free Hectare - study into the feasibility of using open source drone technology to automate field agriculture</ns2:title><ns2:status>Closed</ns2:status><ns2:grantCategory>Feasibility Studies</ns2:grantCategory><ns2:leadFunder>Innovate UK</ns2:leadFunder><ns2:abstractText>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 farm machinery

models to utilise control systems developed from open-source data, providing a low-cost route to on-farm

machine control.</ns2:abstractText></ns2:project>