Autopickr Ltd

At Autopickr, we are developing robots to perform manual agricultural tasks that simple machines (e.g., combine harvesters) cannot. Our vision is a versatile robotic platform that can move between farms, performing labour-intensive tasks where needed. This approach mimics the work pattern of itinerant labour gangs, a model that has become increasingly unr...

Horticulture- growing vegetables, fruit, ornamental plants and flowers for market has traditionally offered growers high incomes from small areas of land, albeit with higher input costs than conventional arable crops like cereals or oilseed rape. However, the total land area used for horticulture has declined by 15% since 2020\. The recent _Sowing the See...

There are great challenges in finding enough staff to do agricultural jobs like fruit and vegetable picking, pruning and weeding. In many cases these are for perennial crops, where current automated machinery would damage plants. Asparagus is a typical example. It produces multiple spears from one root. Only those that are ripe can be picked, at ground le...