Noted.
We're often seeing operations that are 100-500 acres per site, with 20-150+ Bx, L, deere 1E, and Deere 2E series Tractors. Each system often costs 150-200 dollars per day of operation including operator. At those economics, when we replace a person and tractor with a robot, it is...
Now have Burro Grande in the wild:
On par with a BX or Deere 1023E in terms of towing power. Can dock to run 24/7. Planning a 48 inch electric mower deck for it Q4, but selling today into nurseries and permanent crops for trailer towing and harvest assist use today primarily. Carryings up to...
Larger Burro (Burro Grande) coming soon. Shifts from People scale (5hp, carry 500 lbs, tow 1000 lbs) to Pallet Scale (12 HP, rated to tow 3000 lbs on gravel/dirt, 5000 lbs on concrete, and will eventually have a cat 0 3 point with EPTO). Compatible with autonomous docking.
Can I ask why not?
On most of my customer operations today, they have millions of dollars in mowing machinery and annual spend to ahve people run it. Wouldn't you have a use for a roomba - like mowing machine that mows for you in rows/areas/otherwise on farm?
if not, why no?
Daugen,
Thanks for thoughts - GPS is a fickle thing when in rows, so we have a bunch of other autonomy under the hood (each Burro processes 2TB of imagery per hour of runtime) to operate. We have 280,000 hours of operation across hundreds of systems, with over 25 autonomous miles per user...
Standardized mount with EPTO for any BCS/Zanon/Grillo style attachment
Mechanism can:
1. Raises/lowers
2. Can tilt
3. Can float, or can be set to rigid with some floating or rigid slots
Set up initially to mow, but could do other things in time
Will have better imagery in time also. Below...
Early version of mowing raise/lower hitch prototype:
Ignore ductape and chewing gum nature. Will be refined shortly.
Can be paired with a docking station, so run/dock to charge/run
Compatible with all the BCS / Zanon / walk behind tractor attachments
Today we have hundreds of these Burros running in the US/Australia/New Zealand/South America/Soon to EU/South Korea/Japan.
We can carry/tow up to about 3000 lbs in clean conditions/scout/count things up and down rows/patrol/and serve as a platform for a variety of uses (i.e. pollination...
33 inch mower with 8 hour run time, and row to row autonomy with vision based obstacle handling etc.
Good idea or bad idea (nothing actually to mow now, so not showing it mowing here, but you get the idea in terms of scale etc.)?
Burros in production
We're finding that jobs done by people as opposed to from a tractor have a very high ROI if/when an autonomous system like this can help or replace work.
AGM is base option - most growers have been going for LFPs which are supposed to be good for about 4000 cycles, are much lighter/higher powered, and still reasonably priced.
500-1000 hours = one season of use 6 days a week 5-8 months of the Year. Max machines have 2 of that and are working well.
What seems to matter most to people from what I’ve seen is primarily fhow well an autonomy stack handles variable situations - i.e. how many miles or hours can a machine...
We’re now working on a 33 inch electric deck on one, which could run for about 7-8 hours and in theory do 5-6 acres in a day - likely use would be up/down rows mowing though in our view (in grapes, berries, etc.) where the robots can easily go up/down rows sequently to get through a full block...