A gardening bot built around working like a 3-D printer with a gardening tools instead of print heads on a gardening box.
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/automated-agricultural-helpers-ripe-robots-122213155.html This one is a crab the size of a basket ball.
This picture collection of various farm robots shows different drive styles. The top left looks like Acorn: a solar panel on stilts.
The previously mentioned Carbon Robotics laser weed zapper has cantilevered wheels (supported from one side only, and doesn’t appear to have rear steering. per most common rear picture
This one from Biddleford Maine is a startup with a 4th gen prototype, battery powered from solar charged base station is aiming for cheap ($25), straddle robot for mechanically weeding veg. Looks like a gantry cnc machine on riser walls with small wheels, no steering.
Thorvald from Saga Robotics has crab steering with cantilevered legs.
This spidery looking weeding robot Small Robot Company in Hampshire uses electric current to blast weeds. Again with cantilevered fat short wheels, on crab steering legs.
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https://burro.ai a cart like robot that follows the orchard workers to carry the picked fruits, with phase 2 of picking fruits using robotic arms, and can be extended to more purposes. Gas powered it looks like.
Trabotyx - Precise weed control for organic farmers https://www.trabotyx.com. IMHO weed control is the wrong direction toward future ag. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaznnolnlFg (in Dutch)
Yet another large scall weeding machine NAIO Home - Naïo Technologies
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I quite like the scale of the https://romi-project.eu/
Their documentation is kinda crappy may be some vision stuff worth stealing in ROMI - Output at very least there are some datasets that may be useful for training.
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Also in the ‘allies’ camp, it would be nice to talk to the farmos API:
Maybe you could borrow some of their data model for maximum compatibility?
FarmOS is Drupal based, but despite that manages to be a nice app for farm management
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Potential ally Weedinator:
Potential competitor: https://www.earthrover.farm/
Some of their stuff is FOSS (ROS based) Earth Rover · GitHub
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Commercial: www.pixelfarmingrobotics.com
R&D/ Academic/ Commercial https://www.robotriks.co.uk/the-rtu
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Academic spinoff: https://ecoterrabot.com/
Wrote this paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/11/3/222/htm
Also commercial laser: New Autonomous LaserWeeder Features More Lasers, 2 Acre-Per-Hour Weeding Capacity
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These are general purpose agricultural land drones / rovers, and are commercially available today (ie not vapourware):
- Directed Machines LCR https://directedmachines.com/
- XAG R150 R150 Unmanned Ground Vehicle - XAG
I just came across this farming robot in a news article. I don’t believe anyone has mentioned it yet. https://www.aigen.io/
Just spotted this community that makes existing tractors autosteer/ GPS driven
@Howard this might be interesting for you? Give you accuracy on the tractor part allowing your tractor to follow GitHub - Fields2Cover/Fields2Cover: Robust and efficient coverage paths for autonomous agricultural vehicles. A modular and extensible Coverage Path Planning library or similar?
@sam_uk @howard so am I correct that this is able to programme in a customizable path to autonomously control modern tractors - as modern tractors are UAV or is able to steer any tractor?
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Yes, it’s autosteer for tractors that will then follow route planning such as routes generated by geo-bird I think new tractors (that have some kind of autosteer functionality can do it in software, older tractors can do it with retrofit steering wheels.
My thinking is that if both your tractor and your acorn can follow the same route planner it might solve your problem of having to import the manual tracks from Tractor > Acorn each year.
exactly what I was thinking. Will have to look into it in more detail but it seems like it could be a bridge between current farming practises and autonomous solutions.
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UK based small robot company bites the dust. I thought they were one of the more interesting corporate offerings.
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aw this is really sad, I tried to apply for a job with theses guys and they never got back to me but I spent ages looking into their work for it and it seemed really interesting. That’s a real shame 
England already has barely any agritech companies
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