Farmer Tom Pearson, who attended REAP2020 with the bursary, says: “It is incredibly helpful, if you’ve got the time, to attend a conference like REAP and get a feel for what’s going on, some things might work for you now and others give an idea of where things are going.”
Fotenix and Small Robot Company are part of a collaboration devising a new method for the precision application of fungicides and biopesticides.
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The brains behind Small Robot Company’s team of agri-robots has been launched at REAP 2020. Wilma provides per plant intelligence on plant health.
Aerial and terrestrial swarm robots are set to transform Latin American Agriculture following an agreement between the Small Robot Company and SpaceTime Labs, to collaborate on delivery of a ‘per plant’ approach to farming.
SlugBot is an exciting new project that aims to develop an innovative robotic technology for autonomous slug monitoring and precision treatment of bio-molluscicides.
Small Robot Company in partnership with RootWave has developed ‘Dick’ the world’s first non-chemical weeding robot that uses electricity and AI to zap individual weeds in the field. Early field trials of the prototype will start in 2020.
Swarm robots – small, simple and inexpensive – are poised to reverse the trend in agriculture towards ever bigger machines.
“Robot swarms will enable truly precise agriculture – targeted spraying of individual plants, and selective harvesting of crops that are actually ripe – rather than treating an entire field identically,” comments Alan Millard ahead of the swarm robotics event.
Small Robot Company has announced that it achieved its Crowdcube equity crowdfunding funding target of £500,000 within minutes of its launch.