Roboscientific Limited

The proposed project focusses on developing an **AUTOMATED** data-driven **INNOVATION** for **NON-INVASIVE** and **REAL-TIME** monitoring of respiratory disease in dairy-bred calves. Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is the most serious issue facing beef and dairy farmers, costing the UK sector alone around £80M per annum (Zoetis 2022) through mortality, v...

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**What is FarmSense?** FarmSense is an intelligent user-friendly platform that brings together state-of-the-art image/sensor technologies combined with artificial intelligence (AI) to support farmers and their advisors in optimising livestock production whilst assuring the highest animal welfare standards. Compared to traditional labour-intensive farming ...

Paratuberculosis or Johne's disease is a disease of cattle with a high financial and animal welfare cost. Quarterly testing of individual cows is performed in most herds as the bacteria _Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis_ (MAP) may be a possible cause of Crohn's disease in humans. Unfortunately, however, the routine testing performed on milk samples is...

There is a need for a rapid screening test for Covid-19 and other diseases which is rapid; very low cost; non-invasive; can be applied by unskilled operators and which does not involve the use of any consumables such as swabs or chemical reagents. Roboscientific has previously developed instruments for the early detection of diseases in animals such as po...

Global population is expected to grow to 9.8Bn by 2050 with 7Bn of these people living in urban areas. Providing nutritious food for all in a resource and energy efficient manner is becoming increasingly challenging. Arable land to grow crops is becoming more scarce with a third of usable land lost in the last 40 years due to soil degradation (Grantham Ce...

This project is a feasibility study to establish if the RoboScientific VOC (Volatile Organic Compound) sensing system can be used to monitor the breath of individual dairy cattle in the milking parlour to give early warning of disease and other conditions. This system monitors the VOC "fingerprint" of the breath and compares it with other fingerprints hel...

Despite China’s exceptional economic growth there is still extreme poverty effecting large numbers of people. This need can be addressed by large quantities of affordable high protein such as chicken meat & eggs. The Chinese chicken industry lags behind the best standards of production yields; food quality; low anti-biotic usage & disease free status. Thi...

Onion storage diseases cause significant economic losses worldwide ,and £10 to £11m losses in the UK per year alone (Taylor et. al. ,2016; AHDB, 2015),in a UK industry worth £126m (DEFRA).Currently onion growers destructively sample onion stores in making decisions when to empty stores and market the onions. This method is both statistically inaccurate in...

Dairy Farmers need to detect Johnne's Disease (JD) or ParaTuberculosis (pTB), more efficiently and reliably to reduce economic loss. JD is a bacterial infection affecting both dairy and beef cattle and impacts upon productivity and profitability; its incidence is cited at between 30-80% in some literature. The impact on the UK industry is between £5 and £...

Tomato growers in the UK need to detect Botrytis cinerea/grey mould early in it's development to avoid economic loss. Botrytis impacts both productivity and profitability of the industry year long, with backgrounds of 1- 10% of plants infected throughout the year, reaching 30% at the year end. The aim of this project is to investigate the feasibility of e...

Necrotic Enteritis (NE) is a widespread problem with poultry gut health, leading to losses in the global Poultry industry of over £3bn, a burden of £25-30 million in the UK. We are developing a monitor that will indicate when the poultry are developing this problem in their guts, allowing farmers to take early and effective action, with non-antibiotic int...