“We’re making ready to launch Phoenix, a UV-C robotic primarily based on our autonomous modular robotic platform, designed to fight powdery mildew and different fungi in greenhouses. We see Phoenix offering worth for crops equivalent to cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, strawberries, and doubtlessly hashish,” says Robert Vahedi, co-founder and Chief Working Officer at Superior Clever Methods (AIS).
AIS is a Canadian customized robotics engineering agency that develops autonomous modular options to handle labor and different value challenges in agriculture. Whereas AIS is ready to produce customer-ready merchandise, its core technique is to allow different companies that need autonomous robotic options to cut back their improvement value, time, and threat, by providing a deep library of software program and {hardware} modules that AIS can readily customise to swimsuit particular necessities.Â
Now, the corporate is able to carry its Phoenix platform to market to particularly handle the autonomous remedy of fungi in vegetable horticulture.
“It has been identified for a while that UV-C radiation could be useful in opposition to fungi, however the issue was understanding learn how to apply it and what the setting would appear like whenever you wish to use it effectively. With Phoenix, we are able to apply it autonomously and let the robotic work at evening from row to row. With our distant teleoperation functionality, we are able to additionally visually diagnose points the robotic might encounter and, if doable, negotiate it round obstacles or modify the robotic’s mission,” explains Robert.
Phoenix has been trialed at a greenhouse analysis facility at Kwantlen Polytechnic College in Surrey, British Columbia, in addition to in some native business cucumber and tomato greenhouses. As Robert explains, the variability within the progress sample of greenhouse crops signifies that Phoenix might have some customization to accommodate particular crops. The primary model of Phoenix is customized to crops as much as 2 meters tall, and AIS is engaged on growing the peak as crucial for vine crops. The corporate can be growing iterations which are tailored to UV-C utility intra-canopy to make sure that gentle can attain all components of the crops.
With assist from the Authorities of British Columbia, Superior Clever Methods shall be attending 2022 GreenTech in Amsterdam and can carry its first model of Phoenix for show and demo. The AIS crew is keen to fulfill with distributors, growers, and buyers to debate the Phoenix platform in addition to AIS’ suite of agricultural robots and design capabilities.
“Once we launched the corporate eight years in the past, robots have been like science fiction for these purposes. Since then, the market has completely modified because the expertise evolves, the labor value retains growing, and the market requirement for totally autonomous options grows – and customized autonomous robotic options are what we do,” says Robert.
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