Our mission is to bridge the gap between sustainability and scale by providing researchers and farmers with reproducible, lightweight robotics that reduce labour and environmental impact without proprietary dependencies.
The Sowbot Open AgBot ecosystem is designed to bridge the “prototype gap” in agricultural robotics. It provides a Reference Hardware Design that is accessible to startups and is developing a Production-Ready Software Stack that satisfies the rigorous requirements of research.
For startups, this eliminates ~18 months of R&D on the “plumbing” (drivers, networking, UI), allowing them to focus on their unique value (e.g., a proprietary seeding algorithm). For researchers, it provides a stable, repeatable environment where experiments can be shared across labs by simply sharing a Docker image.
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Open Core: The robot ‘brain’
Sowbot Pico
(dev platform)
Status: Requires some Lizard firmware work, but physical platform tested with alternate software
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