Row-straddling, weeding robot headed to international market

Naïo has developed what they claim will be the world’s first row-straddling mechanical weeding robot to officially reach the international market, named Dino. The French company has already scheduled the delivery of Dino’s first four customers.

These included the Chamber of Agriculture of the French Somme Department, cooperative groups Agrial and Picvert as well as a Danish customer who aims to conduct further experiments on popular field crops.

Dino in the fields of the Somme Department’s Chamber of Agriculture for the Farm 3.0 project

"This year, Naïo Technologies will market 10 Dino robots as part of their partnerships with different agricultural players in France and Denmark . Lettuce is the first crop on our list this year. Trials will also be conducted on other types of vegetables as well as on field crops,” explained Lionel Montchalin, Naïo Technologies’ product manager.

Dino: objectives and operating principles
The Dino robot was developed according to the same principles as the Oz weeding robot but has been adapted in order to meet the needs of larger farms and weed large-scale vegetable beds. Dino mechanically weeds vegetable rows to reduce the use of chemicals, increase farm productivity and deliver high quality vegetables to consumers.

The large-scale weeding robot autonomously guides itself around vegetable plots thanks to its RTK GPS system. It’s also equipped with a set of cameras that detect lettuce rows and accurately guide the robot’s weeding tools as close as possible to the crops.

For more information:
Gwendoline Legrand
Naïo Technologies
Tel: +33 688 87 1711
gwendoline@naio
http://www.naiotechnologies.com