UniBots Ltd
 

 

 

 

UniBots provides a conduit from existing university designs and prototypes around the world into the commercial sector.

The name UniBots is a shortened version of University Robots

Contact Simon Blackmore at simon(at)unibots(dot)com.

News

  • 3-28th August. Field robot summer school at SDU in Denmark.
  • 9th July. FutureFarm and GrowBots meetings at WUR.
  • 6-8th July. ECPA/EFITA/ECPLF (JIAC 2009) conference and the Field robot event held at WUR, the Netherlands
  • 15 June. I accepted the Precision Agriculture Research Chair at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia.
  • 4th-21st June. University of Thessaly, Greece
  • 11th May. FP7-NMP-2009-LARGE-3 Stage2 meeting in Brussels
  • 25 April- 9th May. University of Thessaly, Greece
  • 8th April. Approval of Stage1 for the GrowBots proposal
  • 1st April. Giving evidence to the all party parliamentary group on agriculture and food for development. 
  • 23 - 29 March. Invited speaker at Agrophysical Institute of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia.
  • 23 Feb-13 March. Working in Volos, Greece.
  • 17 Feb. Submitted GrowBots consortium bid to NMP Automation and robotics call. 25 partners!
  • 29 Jan. Changed ISP and servers for UniBots and FutureFarm. There still might be some problems....
  • 27-30 Jan. FutureFarm meeting in Rome
  • Pictures from Chile (and Patagonia!)
  • Jan 09. I will be attending the Fruitic 2009 conference in Chile. (Brochure, Presentation)
  • 26 Nov 08. Professional Engineering magazine article
  • 23 Nov 08. In Greece for two weeks
  • 23 Oct 08. Leave for China to teach at CAU in Beijing and attend the workshop of Agricultural Machine Automated Navigation, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou,P R China, November 3 to 4
  • 22 Oct 08. Setting up AgroBots consortium for EU call NMP2009-4.3.4-1 at the AET meeting in Brussels.
  • 21 Oct 08. Interview on BBC radio 4. Farming Today
  • 21 Oct 08. FutureFarm Stakeholder meeting in Brussels
  • 14 Sept 08. TOMI robot runs for the first time! Video
  • 26th August 08. Have a look at the Field Robot summer school  at SDU in Denmark.
  • 20th August 08. www.precisionpays.com published my comments on FutureFarm and robotics from the 9ICPA. The soundtrack can also be found here
  • 17th August www.precisionpays.com published my comments on the future of agricultural robotics or it can be found here.
  • 5th Aug 08. My keynote speech at 9ICPA can be found at www.precisionpays.com or download my presentation with the soundrack.

Current projects

Here are some of our current projects

Services

Bespoke development of robots and controllers as solutions for outdoor automation.
Consultation on design and operation of mobile robots
Application areas

  • Agriculture, horticulture and forestry
  • Parks and large gardens
  • Patrolling and security

Previous projects

As we move from Precision Farming to Phytotechnology, we imply the use of smarter machines or even the development of robotic agriculture. This paper sets out how developed agriculture could change from managing at the field scale, down to sub-field scale (Precision Farming) and eventually care for individual plants according to their needs. Phytotechnology is the word we now use to describe plant scale technology (Phyto comes from the Greek word phuton, or plant)

Development of an autonomous tractor. One of the first projects we started in KVL was to automate various functions of a small tractor so that it could carry out a number of simple tasks by itself.

Development of an autonomous Christmas tree weeder. This project was designed to replace the use of herbicides with mechanical control of the weeds growing underneath and around the young Christmas trees.

Robotic weeding is a classic example of where more intelligently targeted inputs can reduce the chemicals to the point where only micro amounts are needed.


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Last updated July 2009
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