The Edison Awards announced that Autonomous Solutions Inc. (ASI) was voted a Gold winner in the 2018 Edison Awards for its work in the development of the Autonomous Tractor Concept with CNH Industrial and its brands Case IH and New Holland Agriculture.
The Edison Awards, celebrating 31 years of honoring the best in innovation and excellence in the development of new products and services, made the announcement at the April 11th event at The Capitale in New York City. ASI’s Bret Turpin, joined hundreds of other senior executives from some of the world’s most recognized companies to acknowledge ASI’s hard work and commitment to safe, efficient autonomous vehicle technology for commercial applications.
ASI is the autonomous technology provider for CNH Industrial, parent company of Case IH and New Holland Agriculture and jointly announced the Autonomous Tractor Concept with those companies in late 2016.
The Autonomous Tractor Concept is a fully functioning large scale autonomous tractor. It is capable of autonomous seeding, planting, and tillage for broad acre and row crop farming. The vehicles are also capable of obstacle detection which will enhance safety in the agriculture industry. Recent developments have seen the technology deployed in pilot programs at two of the nation’s largest growers in California.
“Winning Gold in the Edison Awards further acknowledges ASI’s hard work and commitment to developing safe and efficient autonomous vehicle technology,” said Bret Turpin, project manager for ASI Agriculture. “To be honored with this prestigious award alongside companies like Lockheed Martin and General Electric is a tribute to our developers, leadership, and teams at ASI.”
Being recognized with an Edison Award has become one of the highest accolades a company can receive in the name of innovation and business. The awards are named after Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) whose inventions, new product development methods and innovative achievements literally changed the world.
“Our judges recognized ASI as a true innovator out of the many products in its category,” said Frank Bonafilia, executive director of the Edison Awards.
The ballot of nominees for the Edison Awards was judged by a panel of more than 3,000 leading business executives including past award winners, academics and leaders in the fields of product development, design, engineering, science and medical.
All nominations are reviewed by the Edison Awards Steering Committee with the final ballot being sent to an independent judging panel. The judging panel was comprised of more than 3,000 professionals from the fields of product development, design, engineering, science, marketing and education, including professional organizations representing a wide variety of industries and disciplines.
ASI previously won an Edison Award in 2013 for its patented Guideline Robotic Convoy System. Guideline is a ground vehicle convoy solution that tethers unmanned follower vehicles to a manned or unmanned lead vehicle. Follower vehicles execute the exact path the leader takes.
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