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Small Robot Company At Lockerley estate a robot called Tom is making its way slowly but steadily through 650 hectares of arable farmland. Weighing just 150 kilograms, the autonomous robot travels on four wheels, splashes of orange on its 1.8 metre long metal frame. Fixed out in front, at the end of Tom’s long crane-like lever, a powerful double camera scans each individual wheat plant poking out of the Hampshire soil. Each day the robot, designed by UK start-up Small Robot Company, can travel up to 20 hectares in this way, collecting around six terabytes of data on exactly which patches of...

Project set to deliver first 5G agri-robot The agritech start-up for sustainable farming, Small Robot Company (SRC), has announced its partnership in the 5G RuralDorset project together with Wessex Internet, Telint and Dorset Council. The project will develop and prove a blueprint for rural-optimised 5G connectivity, with the world’s first 5G-ready agri-robot for arable farms and will enable rapid deployment of 5G to rural areas. This has, according to SBC, the potential to dramatically close the Rural/Urban digital divide for farming and rural communities - boos...

5G agri-robots are being rolled out in Dorset as part of a project that aims to improve connectivity, farming efficiency and rural custodianship.