Small Robot Co.
Date: 2021-10-01Small but mighty!
The Small Robot Company has built a team from Deep Mind, Dyson, IBM, Virgin Galactic and Formula 1 to revolutionize the way that technology is used to create food, by delivering per plant farming for the world’s biggest crops.
This radical approach is focused on using lightweight autonomous vehicles providing near-real time view of each crop plant as it grows through the season. This is called per plant intelligence.
We then using this view to deliver precise, timely interventions to make that plant reach its full potential. This is called per plant action.
By doing this, we are stripping out all the inefficiencies and vast overuse of herbicides, pesticides, fungicides and fertilizer. …And because we do not disturb or compact the soil, we allow the ecosystem of a field to do what it does best. Fix itself.
Per plant action will come online from October 2022.
See their robots here!
Burro AI
Date: 2021-10-01Burros are people-scale collaborative robots designed to help people work more productively today, while building the base for more automation where it is needed most.
Each Burro vehicle has computer vision, high precision GPS, and AI trained navigation sensors. A Burro can follow worker, navigate autonomously from A to B, or scout rows. All while carrying various payloads and tools.
Burros feature a novel and patent-pending approach called Pop Up Autonomy™ – with Pop Up Autonomy™ Burros work immediately out of the box, everyone becomes an operator, and there is no need for a means of commanding everything centrally or installing infrastructure.
Burro.ai's product development strategy is exactly the kind of incremental design we, at M-ACRE like to see. Burro solved their customer's immediate needs first by providing easy to use hardware that helped workers with heavy lift and carry tasks. From there, Burro is learning from how farmers use the vehicles and they are added new capabilities from a triaged roadmap of increasingly difficult problems. If you have an idea for how you could use a Burro on your farm or solution that could be built on top of Burro, we would love to hear from you. Reach out to us at and we can use our partner network to give your implementation a boost.