Flanked by some of the Napa Valley’s most historic wine grape vineyards, the Oakville Experimental Vineyard at the UC Oakville Station provides the ideal site for the field tests of a small motorcyle-sized RMAX helicopter drone. The RMAX drone has already recorded 20 years of successful ag spraying in Japan.

For complete story, see: Wine grape drone flying over California vineyards

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