The agricultural drone at dawn over a wheat field, the spray cloud backlit by the sun

Manta Farm

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Manta Farm brings professional drones, robots and AI systems into the field. Application, multispectral monitoring, inspections and robotics for farms, contractors and agronomists. More precision, less time, fewer heavy machines on the soil.

A 100 litre tank, 40 litres a minute

100L

Multispectral crop monitoring

The multispectral map projected onto the field, stress zones in orange

Liquids, granules and seed

The drone's tank and pumps shown in transparency

Robots in the field, less tractor

The tracked robot moving between vineyard rows at sunset

Visual and thermal inspections

A drone with a stabilised camera hovering above the vines

Greenhouses and protected crops

Dew on leaves, backlit at dawn

From site visit to field report

A farmer watches the drone working over his field
The agricultural drone head-on at blue hour, applying a treatment to the field

How we work

A night's work in twenty seconds

The treatment, the reading of the field, the robot. Scroll to follow the whole cycle.

Application

The right dose, no wheels on the field

The T100 applies liquids and granules where they are needed, including where a tractor cannot go or would cost too much.

The agricultural drone flying low over the crop, nozzles spraying

The spraying system

Forty litres a minute, droplet by droplet

Pumps and nozzles set flow and droplet size for the crop and the product, not for an average.

The drone's tank and pumps in transparency, drawn in cyan

Coverage

The product reaches under the canopy

Rotor downwash opens the vegetation and carries the treatment where a boom cannot.

Treatment mist settling on wet leaves

Monitoring

Stress shows before it shows

The multispectral sensor reads crop vigour and marks the zones to treat, metre by metre.

The field scanned in cyan by the drone, with two orange patches of stress

Robotics

The heavy work goes to the robot

Tracks, autonomous guidance and implements instead of a tractor: less fuel, less compacted soil.

The tracked robot standing between the rows, green stripe along its flank

The system

Air and ground on one work plan

Drone and robot share map, routes and data: one operation, planned once.

The drone and the robot on the same field rows, sunset behind

From data to dose

The same field, read three ways

A sample plot of twelve hectares: what the eye sees, what the multispectral sensor sees, how much product goes on each zone.

Map of a twelve hectare field in twenty five metre cells, in three readings

The crop as the camera sees it: almost uniform green, no obvious difference.

The vigour index: cyan for healthy zones, orange for zones under stress.

The prescription map: full dose in cyan, half dose on the margin, no treatment elsewhere. The dashed lines are the passes a 24 metre boom would make.

Area under stress
2.3ha

of a 12 hectare plot

Product saved
73%

compared with a uniform dose over the whole field

Soil compacted
0m²

against 5,200 m² from a 24 metre boom in 13 passes

Sample figures, computed on a simulated field. On your crops the map comes from the multispectral flight and the dose is set by the agronomist.

Why drones

Fewer passes, more control

Less compaction

The machine never enters the field

Soil structure stays intact

Fast operations

Planned at the desk, done in hours

Even on wet ground or slopes

Precision

Routes, doses and zones fixed before take-off

Every pass logged

Less product

Targeted treatment of stress zones

Variable rate from the map

Field data

Vigour and prescription maps

A report after every job

Difficult ground

Slopes, waterlogging, fragmented plots

Where the tractor is not worth it

The fleet

Three machines, one work plan

The DJI Agras T100 flying low over the crop while applying a treatment

Application

DJI Agras T100

The workhorse. One hundred litres of liquid or one hundred and fifty of granules per load, radar and 360 degree vision, fast charging between flights.

100L
spray tank
150L
spreading tank
40L/min
spray flow rate
13,8m/s
operating speed
Drone application
The DJI Mavic 3 Multispectral hovering above vineyard rows

Monitoring

DJI Mavic 3 Multispectral

Eyes on the field. A 20 megapixel RGB camera plus four multispectral sensors, centimetre RTK, up to two hundred hectares in a single flight.

4 × 5MP
multispectral cameras
20MP
RGB camera
43min
flight time
200ha
area per flight
Multispectral monitoring
Aerial view of a solar array in a field, the kind of site thermal inspections cover

Inspections

DJI Matrice 4T

The platform for seeing far and in the dark: thermal camera, hybrid zoom up to 112 times, laser rangefinder and an auxiliary light for night flights.

640×512px
thermal resolution
1.800m
rangefinder range
112×
maximum hybrid zoom
49min
flight time
Visual and thermal inspections

Figures are those declared by the manufacturer. Field performance depends on crop, wind and dose, and we put it in writing in the quote.

The drone and the robot on the same field rows at sunset

Agriculture 5.0

We were not built just to fly

Drones today, robots and AI tomorrow: one system that takes a farm from the data to the operation in the field.

Tell us about your field

Crop, area and goal: three lines are enough for a first assessment.

Site visits across Lombardy, Piedmont, Emilia-Romagna, Veneto and Liguria. Elsewhere, we assess it on a call.