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Yountville, California – 4 September 2025
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1. Various of harvesting wine grapes
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Gamble, Owner, Gamble Estates:
"We’re harvesting Sauvignon Blanc and we’re using the electric mode of the tractor today, so it’s running quietly and without diesel."
3. Various autonomous tractor operating in vineyard
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Gamble, Owner, Gamble Estates:
"It has both a row follow, meaning it can be driver occupied, but the driver is not actually doing the steering. And then it’s at a constant speed. In the future, as we map vineyard by vineyard, it will be able to drive itself and completely function autonomously. It’ll get to the end of the row and turn around and come back. It’s actually less of a complex operation than, say, a Waymo (self-driving car) in San Francisco."
5. Vineyard workers dump grapes into containers hauled by autonomous tractor
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Napa, California – 4 September 2025
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Kia Behnia, Co-Founder and CEO, Scout:
"So the wine industry is right now going through a very tough phase. Everything from labor shortages to uncertainty in markets is squeezing the margins of every vineyard. So everybody’s looking for ways that they can become more efficient. And this is one of the reasons we feel that AI can be a superpower, not to replace jobs, but to make the existing hardworking people, the people who are very knowledgeable, far more efficient, far more productive, so that they can be in more places without having to travel and waste, quite frankly, a lot of their time, either in traffic or walking up and down roads that don’t need any supervision."
7. Person starting up Scout app on smartphone attached to ATV
8. Various of person riding up and down vineyard rows taking images of vines using attached cameras
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Kia Behnia, Co-Founder and CEO, Scout:
"So how Scout works is very simple. We attach these ordinary cameras to any tractor, ATV, or even a backpack, or in the future it may be robots. Those cameras capture plant photos using a smartphone. The data then gets uploaded to our cloud."
10. Various of person riding around vineyard
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Kia Behnia, Co-Founder and CEO, Scout:
"Analyze those photos for problems, for measurements, for patterns, for counts. We do this instantly, literally in nanoseconds. And what that means is we can take vineyards that are medium-sized to very large, thousands of acres, and process the ground imagery. And turn around a report. In some ways, we say we’re like an X-ray for the vineyard. We’re like a blood test for the vineyard."
12. Close of Behnia looking at Scout vineyard images on laptop
UPSOUND (English) Kia Behnia, Co-Founder and CEO, Scout:
"So AI can go through millions and millions of photos and zero in on the areas that require human , attention so it’s fantastic for identifying problems"
13. Mid of Behnia looking at Scout vineyard images on laptop
14. Close of Behnia looking at Scout vineyard images on laptop
UPSOUND (English) Kia Behnia, Co-Founder and CEO, Scout:
"All the data that’s in Scout around red colored leaves that could be a disease or nutrition deficiency is right there for you. "
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Mireia Domenech, Viticulturist, Enterprise Vineyards:
16. Various of tractor with Scout cameras riding through vineyard
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Kia Behnia, Co-Founder and CEO, Scout:
18. Ripe grapes in foreground as tractor approaches
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Yountville, California – 4 September 2025
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