Singapore-based DroneDash Technologies and GEODNET have formed a joint venture to be called GEODASH Aerosystems, to build an agricultural spraying drone for large industrial farms. The companies say the near-production drone technology is designed to remove the need to map a field to be treated before each flight, and the need to rebuild flight plans when conditions on the ground have changed. The aircraft will be capable of perceiving its surroundings during flight, adjust behaviour in response to visuals it captures, and undertake crop spraying. Current agricultural spraying drones were adapted from general-purpose models developed outside the industry, which meant that on farms, human operators had to survey and map each field, generate a flight plan for each spraying operation, and repeat the mapping process when canopy conditions altered.…