https://spring-agriculture.com/Autonomous robotics for sustainable agriculture. Based in the south of the UK. Prototypes of an autonomous mechanical farm-scale weeding robot currently beginning real-world testing. Still a huge amount of work to do though.
Hardware and software developed fairly much from scratch, not using ROS (for not entirely crazy reasons...); everything written in Rust which I find well suited to this application area.
The robot is built using off-the-shelf components and 3d-printed custom parts, so build cost is surprisingly low, and iterations are fast (well, for hardware dev).
On robot compute is a couple of Raspberry Pi 5s.
Currently using the RPi AI Kit for image recognition, ie Hailo 8[L] accelerators.
Not currently using any advanced robotics VLA-type AI models, but soon looking to experiment with some of it, initially in simulation.
Feel free to get in touch if you'd like to talk :) Contact details in my HN profile, and on our website.
Autonomous robotics for sustainable agriculture. Based in the south of the UK. Prototypes of an autonomous mechanical farm-scale weeding robot currently beginning real-world testing. Still a huge amount of work to do though.
Hardware and software developed fairly much from scratch, not using ROS (for not entirely crazy reasons...); everything written in Rust which I find well suited to this application area.
The robot is built using off-the-shelf components and 3d-printed custom parts, so build cost is surprisingly low, and iterations are fast (well, for hardware dev).
On robot compute is a couple of Raspberry Pi 5s.
Currently using the RPi AI Kit for image recognition, ie Hailo 8[L] accelerators.
Not currently using any advanced robotics VLA-type AI models, but soon looking to experiment with some of it, initially in simulation.
Feel free to get in touch if you'd like to talk :) Contact details in my HN profile, and on our website.