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Earth Rover Limited
Earth Rover
Earth Rover is an AgTech startup which uses AI and robotics to provide a sustainable and effective solution to agriculture with its concentrated light autonomous weeding and scouting rover, CLAWS.
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Financial period: 1 Aug 2023 to 31 Dec 2024
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Automated Selective Broccoli Harvesting to increase grower productivity and resillience towards net zero
1 Apr 2022 to 31 Mar 2023
Broccoli one of the UK's favourite vegetables is even today harvested by seasonal workers who walk in the crop to select and cut only the ripe broccoli heads. Growers have been facing chronic labour shortages and increasing costs. In 2021 £' millions of broccoli crops were left unharvested due to a shortage of seasonal labour UK. For 2022 broccoli and bra...
LightWeeder by Earth Rover: eye-safe, carbon and chemical-free light weeding for speciality crops
1 Sep 2021 to 28 Feb 2023
This project will develop LightWeeder -- a world-first eye-safe, herbicide-free, carbon neutral, commercially viable light-based weeding system; delivered by lightweight autonomous field robots via UK agri-robotics company Earth Rover (ER).
Selective Robotic Broccoli Harvesting Reducing the Requirement for Seasonal Manual Labour due to COVID 19
1 Oct 2020 to 30 Jun 2021
The Earth Rover led consortium will build a prototype selective that will contribute to solving the problem of a shortage of seasonal agricultural labour required to pick crops due to COVID-19 travel restrictions and Brexit. The robots use an AI-powered vision system to select in-spec broccoli and leave crop growing so reducing crop waste. A gang of three...