Revolutionising Food Production with the Small Robot Company 

3:17 - "Taking all the existing technologies" shows a pile of old keyboards 3:20 - "And packing them into a new system" shows an old crt monitor

The idea is great, but I haven't seen what exactly this robot can do.

Well done and people forget this is only prototype tech. I can't wait to see what they'll have in a few years.

"Plowing is only necessary because of the heavy equipment.."? Why did people plow before heavy equipment?

But there is no robot for harvesting, so you'll need combines or harvesters of some sort, these are the biggest compactors of soil... then you'll need to manage the straw or bale it, so you'll need big heavy tractors for that... I love the sentiment and passion but the concept is fundamentally floored. Tom is the only robot our of all of them that makes sense, focus on him!

When you are farming 1,000 acres with robots and turning a profit, call me.

Big RC car with the phone on it

Not sure why most of the time the video was up in people's faces etc instead of simply showing the particular robot being discussed. Kinda seemed like they were NOT trying to show something.

i want money to drive rc cars too lmao

simple, yet great idea

Great. 1000 x the machines, 1000 x the breakdowns and maintenance.

Hold on. There's a case for larger robots: In NSW, they mixed cattle with such a robot successfully; the cows even come to it when the recorded voice of the boss calls them. However, I applaud your efforts and hope you make a success of it.

I'm appreciate for implementing the technology in agriculture.... im sure it is future......good luck guys...keep going....hope good ..make world a nice place..

we would love to try these small produce farmers

That little car looks to delicate to be a farming tool.

Very cool system and creative naming schemes.

Everyone thinks the only reason for plowing is to fix compaction. That is true and necessary in high clay content soils, but a lot of people also do it for weed control.

0:17 what a shot 5:22 I was curious about this why you just have the phone sticking out... rain? Maybe interference can't put it in body. At least a cover of some kind or is it temporary?

Interesting. Wouldn't the harvesting still require heavy machinery?

I would like to know where I can buy does wheels??

What if the crop needs to be hilled before planting or planted into a drill?

Very interesting; what's the plan for harvesting though? Edge of field collection systems?

May I encourage you guys to collaborate with the “Ants Canada”? He has over 80 acres where he is running a forest restoration project and a sustainable organic farming project which focuses on insect habitat, integration, and sustainability. Sounds right up your alley.

“You will own nothing and you will be happy”

Great philosophy powered with ecological understanding. If you use chemicals, IGRs, drags against bio-system, it is striking back by variant, surviving, knock-down registering, after all, we will knock down by what we have done. They show affections to every life from "per plant farming" which is based on a philanthropical philosophy to every life.

From the same crowd that brought you Skylon!

I'd like to / we should build an open source flying drone software to give the drone a mapped area where it will harvest all of the fruit of all plants in that area automatically. The drone could track each piece of fruit updating the website with info like how many tomatoes, how many mangos, almonds, onions, chili peppers, etc it expects to harvest the next day so that local residents could request the fruit to be delivered straight from the plant to their doorstep. I will make everything open source and donate the drone (with solar panels to charge it) too so the food will be free for all within its area. The amount of fruit that matures on plants, falls to the ground and is wasted all around us is staggering, plus the same drone could also recognize ideal areas to plant different seeds and plant, care for, track and harvest them too. The drone, or another version of it would also be able to prune and harvest coconut trees as well, landing by grasping onto the upper trunk of the tree, then driving up and down and around for the automated trimming and harvesting. Anyone want to join me in the project to help feed the world for free? In the future, I plan to add a sub group to C'8 (www.c8coordinate.com) under our search filter Aid Type / Food & Water where an automated donated solar charged food harvesting drone can plant, manage and harvest fruit and vegetables within its mapped urban (for ex) region, updating the C'8 aid offer posts updating the system including predicting maturity quantities and dates with all food delivered direct from the plant to a user's door all for free. People within the region will be able to opt in or partially in selectively allowing the drone to harvest from their property, sharing to the system. Call me overly positive, but I think we’re leaving the era of ‘greed is good’ and celebrating wealth and entering an #EraOfAltruism and equality. Let’s #AutomateEverything and #SkipToAbundance.

Buyer is always interested to see its function, not lectures

Works a bit like a Eclipse Rover

Point application of fertilizer is promising, but that little robot is going to need to make A LOT of trips. Some crops like wheat can tolerate being run over by a little robot, other crops like corn or soybeans, probably can't.

How do you fund all this?

Rachel's phone hanging off in the sunlight is sure to expand the batteries and catch on fire. Put the phone under the cover with a fan to suck out the heat. How do those inserted seeds outgrow the weeds? I thought the whole purpose for plowing was to till in the weeds to kill them and provide nutrients for what you plant. I think large tractors are right out and a robot about the size of a riding lawnmower with a tiller underneath could break up the soil to make way for the new seeds. It could till, level and seed at the same time. And how is Tom going to navigate in a corn field or a field of hemp? And don't you need furrows for irrigation? I think you guys are awesome innovators thinking outside the box, but selling to farmers who have a culture based on tradition won't be easy unless you can prove yields better than their current methods, in every possible crop. Your robots will need solar panels to be able to keep going and hopefully the cellphone strength will be good on those 1,000 acre farms in the U.S. midwest.

Now add JANE to your group and it can be an aerial drone.

Small robot company just went into administration

Yeah, right!

Horizontal inovation is using an old, well-examined, therefore already cheap enough and safety enough to know its robustness technology. Gunpei Yokoi , Nintendo's genius engineer 's basic attitude to develop idea.

Is it available in india

How to Talk BS for 7:41mins

I want the mechanismof the robot

Amen. That's the ticket. Bot 50 quid? Not enough. Anybody besides the Brits interested?

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Hi,does this sort of robot available for india

Please go global and enable permaculture practices!

heavy equipment does not do that much compaction. Tractor tires are 50 cm wide especially to do less compaction. Soil needs to be plowed because of many reasons among which is breaking it up for easier root growth. The overall idea is good - just learn your reasons well first.

.20 is he instructing the drone

You should put a Thomas face on it!

First, I'm not sure I see exactly how this helps the local community. Also, harvesting has been ignored so I'm thinking of crops like maize, tomatoes, potatoes, yams, cabbage, kale... How do these get harvested efficiently without heavy machinery in a way that won't interfere or crush the soil?

They want to develop this for natural and organic, people want to grow food to avoid chemicals

Best part of this is Arduino and raspberry Pi

Smells like a scam to me.

What’s the company name ?

Have a job opening?

I feel drones will do better that these rovers without destroying the crops

Amazing ideas and I really hope this becomes the future of farming but I'd worry about a small robots vulnerability to theft or vandalism. Thousands of pounds worth of kit on its own in a field that you can pick up and walk off with 😕

Where are the results? It's a farming robot, so where is the produce? Their is potential for robotics in agriculture, but we need to see a little more than a rc car with a GPS and a CAD design of the future full scale model. No field owner is ever going to buy your product unless you show them increased yield and profit, neither of which you have demonstrated.

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I might not know better but it seems to me that this technology development appears a bit naïve in its making considering the equipment you're using. The smart part is the software and I agree with that but it doesn't mean the robot needs to have 3rd grade components

these jocks have never been into farming

this approach is a dead end ... this will not go any further because huge farms will need many of the robots to manage which will become financially infeaseble , however this could be very helpful in Mars and moon habitat where the scale will be small ... otherwise this is just a fancy project .... dont take me wrong i am just expressing my personal views ... i am from india and i have around 17 years of experience in AGRI TECH . i am talking from my experience ...

So. No. Try HMI. It works and is cost effective. The objective is to not add chemicals. No farmers were harmed in the making of this video. And. No farmers were involved either.

Is this a joke "tom, dick, and harry"? Have these guys actually spent any real time on a working farm? There are improvements that could be made on farms, but the market drives the sort of conditions that you see on farms. If you were to look into any major industry there are things that the end user would rather not think about, for example all of the tech these guys are using, not a pretty sight.

Rubbish! Just put the people back on the fields! There are enough that dont have work!

I have lower expectations. Just put a mower blade on it for my lawn.

What happens when the crop grows? How will a robot get to say a wheat plant in the field, you'd need loads of tramways which surely means less yeild?! And what crops how these robots be used form potatoes and oil seed rape grow in very different ways surely these can't do it all?!

i see they didn't mention image recognition at all. how are you going to tell weed from rightful plant with a positioning precision of 2 cms. you'd need more like a mm for that, if even. it does help though, anything outside of that 2 cm2 can be destroyed. although the rc car didn't seem to have any tool for that. autonomy also? those batteries didn't look very big to me. and why keep at field empty like that, it is begging to be eroded by wind and water?

They spent plenty of time building RC car instead of buying something like Clearpath robot and focusing on the problem. Startups like this one, which ignore the existing technology and do not have clear objectives, are likely to fail.

Maybe humans wont have to get their hands dirty in the future and they wouldn't have to leave their houses if more people were a I.T. technician?😉

I'm suprised Jeff Bozo has'nt already offerd "Harry" $1,0000,00000... oh wait he's busy trying to compete with space x. #facepalm

Always show results. Geeze

Otherwise it is hot air

too much clutter in the video. next time say something interesting about the inner workings and drop your bs pseudo-philosophy. downvote

Badd business model. Show how it work:)

Nothing is done. Just talks about some toys with names.

Haha, thats a nice joke

Please ...make robot for work by human . He protact seed . He play sound for tree... begore trees broth very smoothly and very comfertanaly. And it was protect farm to fire He has fire alaram ... And he call his orner to save his farm ................................................... You intrest in may ideas ..so you send massage please.............. Tank you..

Hire GESAR INC for your agriculture robot needs

Spraying glyphosate on everything

No

Please stop showing a stack of trashed keyboards and dismantled monitors to show how "existing technology" looks like. Kindly.

These people clearly have no idea what farming is, come to India and your *every* plan will fail in an instant. And about the ploughing part, here people used ox to plough fields earlier.

everybody is interested in technology if you tell them that everybody is interested in tech. is this another tech consumer crap?

lame

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