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New Year, new project at Antobot! 🍇 🍷

We’re excited to expand our work in viticulture to support the growing UK wine industry through Project VISTA (Vineyard Information System for Technology and Automation).

Funded by Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)’s Farming Innovation Programme in partnership with Innovate UK’s Transforming Food Production Challenge, VISTA aims to create a highly accurate open-source map of key attributes of vineyards down to individual vines to create a common infrastructure for vineyards across the world.

Antobot will lead map integration with autonomous agri-robots to enable improved yield estimation and precision application of chemicals.

Working alongside brilliant industry and academic partners Outfield Technologies, Ian Beecher-Jones at Jojo's Vineyard and the Digital Vineyard, Vinescapes, Agri-EPI Centre, and University of Lincoln, the Antobot team is “really looking forward to creating a digital friendly vineyard environment to accelerate robotics and provide new tools and capabilities for wine growers.” - Marc Jones, VP-Commercial

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Antobot expands expertise in Viticulture through Project VISTA Antobot autonomous agri-robots expand into viticulture with mapping project VISTA for UK wine industry

New project announcement 📢📢

We’re thrilled to announce our exciting new 3-year project AREA-H (Accelerating Robotics and Embedding Autonomy in Horticulture).

Bringing together world leading experts in AI and embedded controls, robotic strawberry harvesting, horticulture growing systems and autonomous operation research.

The UK horticulture sector is facing huge challenges. Autonomous robotics has the potential to transform the industry but with each farm possessing unique, challenging and changeable environments, robotics need to be able to operate in narrow, GPS-limited areas, safely alongside vital human workers.

Through the AREA-H project, Antobot and its partners will develop a horticulture-specific robotics support system to provide robust navigation using low-cost sensors, increased safety alongside human workers, and integration with existing and new infrastructure to future-proof horticulture businesses.

The collaboration includes Dogtooth Technologies, experts in state-of-the-art fruit-picking robots, Loughborough University's Centre for Autonomous System, renowned for their expertise in autonomous robotics, Haygrove, a leading provider of horticulture infrastructure, and Clock House Farm, a pioneering British soft-fruit grower.

The project is funded by the UK government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) (Defra) through the Farming Futures Automation and Robotics competition. The funding is part of Defra's Farming Innovation Programme, delivered in partnership with Innovate UK's Transforming Food Production Challenge.

We are honoured to lead this project and work with such an innovative and sector-leading consortium. We would like to extend our gratitude to our partners, Dogtooth Technologies, Haygrove, Loughborough University, and Clock House Farm, for joining us on this incredible journey. 🍓

We look forward to collaborating with our partners and together pushing the boundaries of horticulture autonomy, providing growers with cost-effective, capable, and reliable solutions.

https://tinyurl.com/4md3rd4j

World-leading collaboration on affordable robotic autonomy for horticulture Antobot Ltd has won a 3-year £1.5m project for a world-first collaboration between Dogtooth Technologies, producing state-of-the-art fruit-picking robots, Loughborough University, experts in autonomous robotics, Haygrove Ltd, leading provider of horticulture infrastructure including field-scale com...

Excited to announce our partnership with leading UV technology experts Cleanlight Hobby Unit to create a sustainable, autonomous strawberry treatment solution. 🍓

Read more about it here: https://www.antobot.ai/post/uv-robot-vs-powdery-mildew

And contact us at [email protected] to discuss your needs! 🌿

UV robot vs. powdery mildew Antobot partners with CleanLight Launching at Fruit Focus on July 12 (NIAB EMR, Kent), Antobot and CleanLight are partnering up to support robotics in the horticulture sector. Powdery mildew is a fungal disease that affects plants in all growing scenarios though it particularly affects fruit grown i...

Thank you Agri-EPI Centre for the invite to our VP Commercial, Marc to attend the City Food & Drink Lecture in London!

A fascinating event with interesting (and Royal) speakers!

It’s and we’re looking forward to representing at this year’s ICRA 2023 at London ExCeL from 29th May to 2nd June

As the largest and most prestigious Robotics and Automation event, we can't wait!

Calling all robotics researchers - catch us on stand E26 where we’ll be showing the nuts and bolts of our robot platform, components and what we can do on-farm!

Our Ant platform is off to university (and we’re so proud)! 🎓

The Antobot team were pleased to provide Engineering with their very own robot platform for their use in research and development.

Our team, Dr Will Eaton and Zhuang Zhou, delivered a talk to the students and demonstrated the Ant platform in action. The event culminated in a friendly up-hill race between Ant and Spot from Boston Dynamics.

Check out the full story on our blog --> https://www.antobot.ai/post/antobot-loughborough-university-research-robot-platform

Antobot delivers new research robot platform to Loughborough University The first highly versatile and robust Ant robot platform for research is provided to Loughborough University for robotics and autonomous systems R&D

It’s another ! With strawberries red and ready to harvest, we are collecting data to deliver real-time yield from farm to phone using Insight!

Marking the start of the 2023 season, the team went to Place UK Ltd as part of our Innovate UK funded Project Insight with University of Essex, University of Bedfordshire and Agri-EPI Centre.

Bring on the British summertime and strawberries for the Coronation! 🍓👑

It’s been brilliant working with Ian Beecher Jones and the team at Agri-EPI Centre on mapping vineyards for Project Vine!

Having accurate open source digital infrastructure for farms is a vital building block for innovation so we’re excited to see where this goes next 🍇

Our VP commercial Marc Jones was honoured to speak about Antobot at the recent Department for Business and Trade 'Game-Changing Technology in Agriculture' conference in London 🌿

It was great to meet industry, government and trade delegates from around the world to discuss the future of and how innovative UK companies can play their part.

Good to catch-up with Agri-EPI Centre, Crop Health & Protection - CHAP and Agri-TechE (thanks for the photo!)

This check out our Mechanical and Electrical Apprentice, Ella, on her piece on promoting Women in STEM with the team at Arise Innovation Hubs 🚀

We’re proud to have 7/13 UK team members at Antobot identifying as women, particularly as we sit in between Agriculture and Technology, both historically male-dominated industries.

In fact, Did You Know:

➡️ only 23% of countries have equal laws on land ownership for men and women (Stand for Her Land)
➡️ only 26% of the tech sector is made up of women (Tech Nation)

We are looking forward to supporting our current team and hiring more women in leadership with us as we grow but we would love to see more in the UK and beyond.

If anyone would like to chat to the team at Antobot about this you can email us at [email protected] with “IWD”

Read the full piece here: https://bit.ly/3YuoVgk

“What better place to apply this technology than the food we eat and supporting UK farmers and growers” – take a look on the role of AI and Antobot in agriculture.

Check out episode 31 of the Essex Business Podcast on “AI – is the future already here?” presented by Chris Penhall in conversation with our Head of Software, Daniel Freer and Business, Marc Jones.

The podcast also features Dr Faraz Janan, Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University on AI in medicine and Alexander Low, Director of Beyond Sales on AI in marketing.

You can find it online here: https://essexbusinesspodcast.libsyn.com/31-ai-is-the-future-already-here and on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Amazon Music

Big thank you to the team for having us on and to Rickard Luckin – check out the rest of their episodes too!

Essex Business Podcast: #31 AI - is the future already here? Artificial Intelligence has been talked about for a while now, but still often with an air of what could happen in the future. The reality is somewhat different, and AI is playing an increasingly key role in business life.  In episode 31 of the Essex Business Podcast, we talk to Dr Faraz Janan,...

It’s ! And we’re thrilled to announce our partnership with Wilkin & Sons Ltd, you might know them as Tiptree, the iconic British jam and conserve producer! 🍓

Our team visited their site on Wednesday 18th January to discuss our partnership for 2023. After enjoying some warm freshly made scones with their famous strawberry jam, we learnt all about Tiptree’s history and enjoyed a tour of their facilities including their innovative growing and irrigation systems.

Thank you to Andrey, Veso, and Rado for the warm welcome and we are looking forward to a jam-packed year of activities on farm!

You can read more about Tiptree, its history (from 1757!), its ethos (sustainability and innovation!) and much more here on their website: www.tiptree.com

Read the full story on Antobot's website --> https://www.antobot.ai/post/tiptree-antobot-partnership

Time for a Friday afternoon tea break yet? 🍰

Tiptree partners with Antobot to deliver affordable robotics for sustainable fruit production! Antobot and Tiptree partner to deliver affordable agri-robotics for sustainable fruit farm production.

Brilliant event today for our Business team attending the Ambitious Essex Innovation Summit with Essex County Council! ✨

Here are some pics of our VP Marc speaking on our tech and vision for the future of

Great to meet other Essex based businesses - thank you to Ambitious Essex at Essex County Council for hosting!

Flying the flag for and !

Great day with Agri-EPI Centre in Cranfield University meeting other agri-tech innovators and robotics companies last week 🌱🦾

Our VP Marc Jones was invited to speak again on our technology, progress from last year and our plans for 2023

You can check out more about us here --> www.antobot.ai/technology

And the full article here --> https://bit.ly/3XtQuH6

Special interest group discusses agri robotics and automation solutions Photo from L-R (Rebecca Lewis, David Rose, Marc Jones, Eliot Dixon) outside the Southern Crop Technology Hub. Agri-EPI hosted a Special interest group

Kicking off is the spotlight on one of our partner growers, B.R Brooks and Son.

B.R Brooks and Son is a premier soft fruit producer based in Kent, England, supplying high quality strawberries and raspberries to major UK supermarkets. 🍓

We’ve been working directly with Father-Son Duo Henry and Alastair in the latter half of 2022 and we are thrilled to be collaborating with them even closer during 2023. They also have some adorable farm dogs (agri-tech work perk)

Here is a photo of their recent visit to our office in Chelmsford to meet the full team and the robots, discuss our products and celebrate our partnership for 2023! 🙌

Find out more about B.R. Brooks & Son

Great day at the Annual Agri-EPI Centre Conference yesterday where we were asked to speak on the role of precision technology in the path to sustainable farming 🚜

Check out our CEO in his wellies on the panel with Drone Ag, SoilEssentials Ltd and Earth Rover

Precision tech is the goal of our Project Insight supported by Innovate UK alongside our farming partners and Agri-EPI Centre, developing AI+ systems to ping real-time yield info from the field to farmers' phones on Count, Size and Ripeness of fruit. Currently operating in strawberries and apples - what's next for our precision ag development?

www.antobot.ai/project-insight

Wonderful to hear from growers, researchers and other ag-tech innovators on their work. And a big thank you to the organisers of the event at Shimpling Park Farms!

Agri-EPI Centre have been brilliant partners for us throughout our Agri-tech journey - check out all the details of our collaboration 👇

Finally, your chance to meet our team and robots!

We are taking a break from testing to exhibit at Fruit Focus on 13th July 2022 at NIAB EMR showcasing our brand-new robots and the tech behind them.

If you are interested in how we can help your farm or just love everything robotics, come chat to us at stand 201! (Fingers crossed for good weather 🤞)

Last week we were lucky to be visited by top robotics scientists Professor Zhang from Universität Hamburg and Professor Meng from Loughborough University! Check out the full story featuring a sneak peek of our new robot 👀

The team shared our progress on the next generation of our robots and universal robot control units and the professors shared their research in cutting edge robotic applications

A fascinating day for all – thank you Prof Zhang and Prof Meng!

Check it out on our website: https://www.antobot.ai/post/professor-visit-may2022

World-renowned robotics scientists visit Antobot! On Wednesday 4th May, the team at Antobot were lucky to be visited by world-renowned robotics scientists Professor Zhang and Professor Meng as part of our collaboration between researchers at the forefront of innovation and the industry partners that can bring their research into reality.