Across the Pond and into the Field: Visiting scholar joins MSU Ag Autonomy Institute to ‘rethink the possible’
Kit Franklin will be the first to point out the irony. He is driven by human connection, but he’s built his career on replacing human hands with machines. Franklin is a visiting agricultural engineer at 91±¬ÁÏ’s Agricultural Autonomy Institute and one of the most recognized figures in the development of autonomous farming worldwide. As the lead at Harper Adams University in England on the Hands-Free Hectare project, the world’s first fully autonomous cropping cycle, Franklin earned interviews with media, spoke before British politicians and royalty, and helped put agricultural autonomy on the global map.
March 26, 2026
