ecoRobotix

Address: Y-Parc, Rue GalilÈe 7 1400 Yverdon-les-Bains France

Contact: AurÈlien G. Demaurex phone: +41 24 524 41 23 email: info@ecorobotix.com www.ecorobotix.com

Year of foundation: 2011

Number of employees: 6

Keywords:

innovative solutions for sustainable agriculture, autonomous robot, artificial vision technology, solar powered

Company profile:

Established in 2011 by a qualified team concerned about global environment issues, our start-up gathers key competencies in machine vision, robotics and information technology to provide state of the art robotic machines suited for agriculture tasks. Our vision is to provide added value for farmers, and sustainability for our modern agriculture.

Products and services:

Modern agriculture heavily relies on chemicals for ensuring high production. This has adverse consequences on the environment and on human health. We want to contribute to a more sustainable agriculture with the development and commercialization of smarter, lighter and more efficient agricultural machines using robotics and artificial vision technology.
We are developing a revolutionary robot for ecological and economical weeding of row crops. Weeding is an essential operation in agriculture to prevent undesired species from growing and consuming the key resources (i.e. water, minerals, soil and sun) and thereby compromising crop yield. Fully automatic and autonomous in energy, the robot can work for several days without any maintenance and performs weeding with an efficiency of more than 95% of weeds destroyed. The robot is adapted to most types of row crops and performs weeding by combining an advanced vision system that recognizes weeds and a fast robotic arm to remove them. The robot is lightweight, easy to transport, deploy and store. In addition to its ecological benefits, it allows an important reduction in costs of herbicide, labour, machinery and energy, which offers a return on investment to a European farmer of less than 5 years.