Are farmers able to do maintenance on the robot or do you do the maintenance on the
robot it's a it's a lot like a tractor it's I know I actually say it's more simple than
a tractor because it's a it's a diesel engine and then it's hydraulic systems there's not
that many things that that can go wrong I always say that I'm confident sending this
robot all around the world as long as we got internet connection yes because that's the
only thing the farmer can't solve if there is any software issues but if there's internet
connection we can access it so it's only this year we we set up a Robotti in Australia Azerbaijan
a very remote areas and internet connection and then then we're good to go and farmers
are enjoying your product really all around yeah yeah we are also shipping one to Canada
shortly okay so we are coming to to your side of the world how many countries have you ship
robotic to so far I think around 10 I would say yeah but it is as I said it's a it's an
early stage we're in with this Robotti robot in general pretty confident that they will
increase a lot the next couple of years I can definitely yeah yeah what technology are
you looking to move into in the future the focus is on Robotti but but what we also have
a lot of focus on is a camera technology if you look here in the front bar they're sitting
two two cameras facing down they're actually taking pictures all the time of the crop so
so we get a lot of Investigations home from from the field you can actually see here recording
images okay so it's taking pictures while it's driving and that means when I get home
I can I can run these pictures through some algorithms and then I can get exactly what
kind of weeds are in my field what the crop level are the strawberries in so we get a
field map so maybe I know when the strawberries arriving or anything something like that so
very helpful information for Farmers yeah and it's this is the future for us the crop
I we call it because we need these informations from the field because I usually say when
a farmer had a farm for many years he knows every corner they of his field he know what's
wrong there were wet parts or something when the new generation farmer comes you you might
not been to the farm for that many years you might buy a farm and you have no informations
all the information is in the head of the the old farmer but by having this technology
as Robotti you have it in a database all the data stored so I think there's a lot of value
in that that part of it yes there's huge value in that I can definitely see how that is the
future farming yeah could you talk a little bit about the safety so uh talking about autonomous
vehicle both on the roads it's a big thing but also in the fields it's something that
we as manufacturers take very seriously because we can't have any accidents while you're running
out there but also the lawmakers they are struggling a little bit to find out what should
they actually do about this because should we allowed a car running autonomous in the
in the roads we are not really sure yet so the legislation is a is a little bit lacking
in this subject but to us it's always been very very important because there's no a worse
story than a robot running out of the field or in worst cases might injure a human being
or something so so we don't want that so we're done a lot on it if you look at the at the
Robotti we have we have a scanner in front of it it's called a lighter scanner so it's
scanning the area in front of the body in 3D and that that means they can detect a human
being and then when it's a 12 meter ahead it will start slow down you start to take
something and then when it gets gets closer and closer then it will stop in the end but
if for example it's a it's a deer or something just crossing it will not it will not stop
it will just it will slow up and then when the deer is gone it will continue the operation
so we can it can stop for a while and then just continue again no exactly when there's
nothing in there and apart for from the lighter then we have this round red thing around the
Robotti it's it's called a bumper and as soon as you press this then it's stopping completely
you also have these red buttons around here and that's also emergency stop so if you get
close to it and something will happen you can just press it and then it will stop what
are the the other parts of the robot starting from the bottom we have four wheels it's four
wheel drive traction with Robotti it only steers on the front wheel but the traction
is a four-wheel steering and then we have the the two models as I said before it's Kubota
engines 74 five horsepower in each side so 150 horsepowers in this model one engine for
propulsion and the other one for pulling a PTO driven Implement on the top up there we
have an rtk GPS like you have on a tractor it's a little bit more special this one but
it's actually doing the same a very high Precision system we have light for going at the at night
time we have cameras for remotely monitoring what it's doing and then we have the the hitch
in the center and uh coming from the from the countryside you will experience and seen
that before on a on a normal tractor then I'll lift capacity one of the the basic thing
in the in the construction of Robotti is to have the Implement in the center of the weight
distribution there's another feature to this that is we have increa surrounded the Implement
with safety systems so for example if you had a Implement running out here you need
a separate safety system for that running autonomous by having the Implement in there
we completely cover implement this is what we call a terminal but that's what we can
see on the phone as well it's just when you're in the field then you can but you can quickly
look at that when let's do it in the other end and
constantly what speed does the robot go and can you change yeah yeah
you can you can set it from everywhere between uh yeah zero and up to five kilometers an
hour that's what we so far has tested but we will of course like to have more speed
on but that's also related to safety because we need to have them braking distance right
now we are between two and five kilometers an hour that's still very efficient yeah yeah
yeah yeah we usually say for seeding and weeding one and a half hectare an hour and that's
that's pretty okay in for example vegetable Growers I know not compared to Montana farming
it's it's not a lot but the going in something like this it's okay yeah and you have to remember
that it's 24 hours a day so a person can't work no no Robotti never gets tired it just
needs some Diesel and then then it's heavy what Farmers would most commonly purchase
this robot for example a strawberry farmer or would would it most commonly be purchased
for seeding a particular type of crop or a farmer that's more interested in this technology
than say others right now the early adopters of this technology is the vegetable growers
because they have the largest problem with the manual label it's very hard to for them
to get labor and also it's a very long season they have to start early growing a fresh market
and then later on so they give a long season where Robotti just can be working many hours
so we see we see the highest demand at vegetable Growers right now and they're ready to take
on new technology and I think many of them are also used to robots in packing houses
and stuff like that so it's not that strange to them or going into this technology but
we also see normal grain Farmers going into this technology so we are not limited to anybody
so yeah so this is the controller but we can I think also you should try and drive it I
would yeah yeah but this is basically only for when you want to drive it to the field
or drive it on a lorry or something and then move it around in the Headland but usually
when we have demos I have to stand with it like this because people they think I'm driving
but uh I'm not it is Robotti then I can go from auto to park and then Robotti is parked
and it's that simple yeah yeah so this is the interface for Robotti so this is only
what you use in the field you have some standard settings in here you have modem rtk settings
you have rgk effects there's some service menus you get some telemetics for engines
you can choose language in here you have you have two gears in Robotti at the hydraulic
gears you have the hits function PTO if you want to then you can actually start engine
two here here engine 2 started yeah stopping into hydraulic you have three hydraulic Outlets
you can control here and then you have light you can turn on here and then later there
will be some cameras in here as well but what you use most is it is planning so I have a
lot of plans for this field it's called plugsil in here I'm in this field too strawberry cleaner
resume is because I'm in the middle of the plan so I can actually just press this one
resume and then if I press resume operation last week I would like to start from where
I work last then just press here now it's it's loading the plan from the sky and then
shortly there will be a green green line see now there's a green line and then it knows
next row then you just actually just press Start you're happy about that you have to
choose the farmer just to identify your who you are press this one and then you get 30
seconds you can actually you can walk away or and then you before 30 seconds you need
to put it in auto and then it's just starting
and then it's just continued in the operation and then you can go home again yeah so you
can put all of your settings in your computer and tell the robot what field it's in and
um how long to go for and that's all done by computer yeah so uh one of the big changes
in the mindset of farmers you need to do for some preparation from home you cannot just
go to the field and then say work this field not the first time but you need to do some
preparation at home you could do that in front of your computer you have the field boundary
and then you can actually plan how you want to go inside the field yes but this is a one-time
job so when you've done this it will work years after years just doing the same plan
if that's what you want on that same thing yeah yeah when you do a new field and you
make a plan and then you can actually just continue
fields are not always straight they're sometimes in odd shapes is the robot able
to accommodate that yes you can do all kind of shapes and so normally it runs by a b lines
straight in the field like in a tractor but if you have like a curve or something you
also do that so you can do a normal field like you want to that's does it sense the
curve in the field when it's working or do you put the map of the field in the program
it will it's the same thing both things because it's when you're planning it's it's having
a curve and then Robotti is getting the plan down and then it's what is forwarding because
Robotti is not taking any decisions in the field it's just half the plan and that's what
it's following yes yeah so if the if the plan is curved then robot is following the curve
really yeah I am now driving the robot but you can turn the wheels with this right this
is just like
a video game except in real life this is super fun
does the robot also go backwards? That's pretty incredible
I've never done this before thank you
that's like backing up a car which is hard for me too
it is only when you attach an implement Yeah you've go the hand of it. thank you so
much
So now we are standing in a pea field actually with barley in the middle um and the robot
planted all of this I just I can't believe it um and also did the weeding on this field
as well yes exactly what variety of peas are these yeah these uh some sugar peas because
it's for for self-picking so people like the the sweet piece so it's not for uh for harvesting
it's it's for human consumption that sounds delicious may I try one yeah exactly you can
do that there's plenty here you pick it very hard I think it's because it's not right in
that one yeah it's okay now we're going to try sweet Peak now I am opening the Pea oh
wow it's still not full mature but uh it will it'll come in a couple of days mmm delicious
you well thank you no worries and what other crops are you growing in this area that so
beside strawberries we also have potatoes over here and then we have some sweet sweet
corns this year we also tried pumpkins for Halloween it's becoming a really big thing
here in Denmark as well I know it's been for many years in in the US but but now it's becoming
a big thing so we uh we planted 25 000 Pumpkins this year so we hopefully we can sell that
as self-picking as well everything is done by Robotti here no tractor has been in this
field so Robotti is doing everything seeding weeding and whatever you can think of I mean
shock this is just amazing I have seen the future now in present day it's crazy to look
at farming in the olden days done with horses and just pulling your Implement and now some
say tractors is just a short area of time because the horses we've done for a thousand
years pulling off the tractor's only been here for a little more than 100 years yeah
and now robots are coming so might just be a short notice in history that attracts us
and then we go into full autonomy with the robots I think that's definitely where we're
heading yeah thank you so much for watching today's video learn a little bit more about
the process it takes to get food to your table and thank you so much for showing me about
this robot it is absolutely incredible and if you'd like to find out more information
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in action and being able to drive the robot yes I hope you learned something so yes I
definitely did new technology in future sure and the future this is truly the future of
farming yeah it's not the future it's here right now yeah you can see it that's what
I cannot believe yeah yeah so this is just amazing thank you so much for watching make
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