Robots for protecting crops
Funding Program:
Horizon 2020
Call:
ICT-46-2020-IA
GA No.:
101016807
Duration:
2020-2024
EC Funding:
€ 7.928.092,50
Cultivating Robotics and AI for Sustainable Farming
Farmers are grappling with many challenges, including labour shortages, soaring costs of essential resources like fertiliser, seeds, fuel, and farming equipment, and the disruptive impacts of climate change. These challenges are making it tough for farmers to adapt and succeed in the changing agricultural landscape. They need to be resilient and resourceful to overcome these obstacles.
The EU-funded project ROBS4CROPS aimed to deliver a labour-saving, autonomous robotic system for spraying and mechanical weeding, along with a supporting ecosystem, ready for wide-scale adoption. Featuring smart implements, autonomous vehicles, and high-level software for planning and scheduling, this innovative system helped farmers reduce labour requirements and cut costs.
Our role in the project
As part of the ROBS4CROPS project, Foodscale Hub (FSH):
- Leads the communication, dissemination, and exploitation efforts, developing innovative marketing strategies to support the wide-market adoption of the low-cost, high-quality autonomous robotic system.
- Developed a collaborative Robot-as-a-Service business model that benefits both partners and target users.
- Ensures that the technical outcomes of the project are translated into business opportunities for SMEs and other consortium partners.
- Provides the project with business and exploitation plans to facilitate the ecosystem’s adaptation to autonomous robotics solutions.
ROBS4CROPS by numbers
- 16 partners, 7 countries
- 4 pilots
- 2000 stakeholders reached through pilots
- 75,000 participants reached through demo event and pilots