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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.

CRN
10864067
Founded
2017
Age
8

Overview

Legal name
EARTH ROVER LIMITED
Region
West Midlands
Registered address
C/O AGRI EPI CENTRE LTD POULTRY DRIVE
EDGMOND
NEWPORT
SHROPSHIRE
ENGLAND
TF10 8JZ
Insolvency history
No

Corporate ownership

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Latest accounts

Financial period: 1 Aug 2023 to 31 Dec 2024

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Turnover
Unknown
Profit / Loss
Unknown
Employees
5

Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

5 events
11 Dec
2026

Confirmation statement due

Confirmation Due

Next confirmation statement due date

30 Sep
2026

Accounts due

Accounts Due

Next accounts due date

27 Nov
2025

Confirmation statement filed

Confirmation

Last confirmation statement made up date

31 Dec
2024

Accounts filed

Accounts

Last accounts made up date

13 Jul
2017

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Public funding

3 awards
First funded
2020
Funded years
2020, 2021, 2022
Age at first award
3 years

Projects

2022 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Automated Selective Broccoli Harvesting to increase grower productivity and resillience towards net zero

1 Apr 2022 to 31 Mar 2023

Awarded
£217,676
Total cost £310,965

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...

2021 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

LightWeeder by Earth Rover: eye-safe, carbon and chemical-free light weeding for speciality crops

1 Sep 2021 to 28 Feb 2023

Awarded
£492,634
Total cost £703,763

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).

2020 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Selective Robotic Broccoli Harvesting Reducing the Requirement for Seasonal Manual Labour due to COVID 19

1 Oct 2020 to 30 Jun 2021

Awarded
£174,400
Total cost £252,753

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...

Product types

Collaborative R&D