Autonomous Technology

Robots on the ground, drones in the air

Turning the barn floor has to be done every day and takes more labor than anything else. We are handing that job to a machine.

Galjeonguri — an autonomous bedding-tilling robot

A humus bedded-pack barn must be tilled once a day to keep fermentation going. Today a person does it with a tractor. Galjeonguri is a robot that drives itself and does the job.

It is being developed under a Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy project, “Development and commercialization of an autonomous bedding-management livestock robot for barn environment improvement.” GMW Co. leads, the Chungnam National University industry-academic foundation handles autonomous driving, and D2O, as the demand company, runs the field trial at Song Young Shin Farm and handles roll-out and training.

Project number: RS-2026-25508014; Certified or registered
Period: Apr 2026 – Dec 2028; Certified or registered
Technology readiness target: TRL 5 → 9; Planned
Trial site: Song Young Shin Farm; Certified or registered; Miyang-myeon, Anseong

An open barn with a humus bedded pack and Jersey heifers — The floor Galjeonguri will work. For now it is tilled by tractor every day.

Naltle — drone training and operations

Naltle UAV Training Center was designated a specialized training institution by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in 2017 and teaches the national drone pilot licence courses at Osan University. It operates large crop-spraying drones and an aerial filming drone.

In farming and livestock, we are studying applications that cover what ground robots and sensors cannot see, such as surveying pasture and forage fields, spraying, and checks around barns.

The data a robot leaves behind

A robot does more than work. Its route, tilling depth and floor condition are all recorded. Read alongside CowTalk's animal health data, they let the barn environment and the cow's condition be judged on one screen. This link is being designed together with the robot trial.

Certified or registeredOur own recordsPlanned

Every figure on this site carries an evidence grade. Certified or registered means it can be checked against a document from an outside body. Our own records are figures from our field data. Planned means a target we have not reached yet.

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