Earth Rover Limited

This project will undertake on-farm trials in commercial carrot production to evaluate the performance of Earth Rover's CLAWS. CLAWS is a concentrated light autonomous weeding and scouting robot which provides a chemical-free weed control solution. Weed control in carrots is inherently challenging due to the crop's sensitivity to competition. Traditionall...

This project spans across both edible and non edible horticulture, and generates outcomes which will benefit across all row based growing systems. Earth Rover has developed the CLAWS platform, a field robot that uses concentrated light to eliminate weeds, providing a non-chemical alternative to herbicides. The project aims to address a current limitation ...

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...

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).

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...