Daedong Co., Ltd.

Daedong Co., Ltd. is a Daegu agricultural machinery maker that builds tractors, combines and utility carriers and is developing AI farming systems. The company describes itself as a business shaping the future of farming, and it organises its work around AI precision farming, AI facility farming and AI field robots. Those three lines connect to an operation center that acts as its data hub and control system.

Tractors and machines

• HX Series AI tractor: The site presents it as the first AI tractor launched in Korea for farm work.
• Harvest combines: These include a self-driving combine with yield monitoring and a soybean combine model built to limit grain breakage and loss.
• Mechron utility carriers: Mechron 2450 and 2460 carriers for rough ground, along with a transport robot for orchard work.
• Electric tractor: The company was selected for a national K-GX project to develop an electric tractor.

Farming robots and data

Daedong is pursuing joint development of Agroid, a farm robot, with Rainbow Robotics. It has received government certification as new technology agricultural machinery for an autonomous carrier robot and a combine. The site also says it supplies DJI drones for farm use and is working with a national agricultural cooperative on precision field work. Its greenhouse operation automation solutions let crop and climate data drive control decisions without manual steps.

Key facts

• Based in: Daegu, South Korea
• Certifications: Government certification as new technology agricultural machinery for its AI tractor, and for autonomous carrier and combine technology
• Products: HX Series AI tractor, DSF85 soybean combine, Mechron 2450 and 2460 carriers, DJI agricultural drones
• Markets: South Korea, with sales work in Europe, the United States and Africa