Adrian Scripps Limited

The agricultural industry is undergoing a transformative revolution, leveraging new technologies and knowledge to increase yields while dramatically reducing environmental impacts, lowering production costs, and reducing waste. Plants have evolved many capabilities to detect and respond to stress long before visible symptoms appear, yet current agronomic ...

Following on from Project Idaeus, which delivered a proof of concept raspberry harvesting robot, this project Tenaci will pick up the development of two major threads of work: End-effector development and adaption of the crop to facilitate robotic harvest. Dogtooth has picked over 1.2M strawberries in the YTD 2023 using the end-effector developed through ...

After harvest, apples are stored prior to being graded, packed and shipped to retailers, but producers often have little reliable information on the stored crop, which makes it difficult to match customer requirements. This leads to wasted crop at a cost to the farmer, as well as wasted money from storing apples that do not match specifications in cooled ...

End-of-life apple orchards are currently managed using the environmentally unsustainable practice of grubbing and burning. In this project we will investigate the use of pyrolysis as an alternative more sustainable approach. Pyrolysis converts biomass to biochar in a clean, heat-generating process. This stabilises the carbon effectively removes CO2, avoid...