AGRI-OPENCORE is a bold initiative to resolve major issues faced by the agricultural sector and businesses driving the automation and digitalisation of this crucial industry. It is focussed to
- cut the time and cost to develop a robotic harvesting system for any farm/crop with human-cost-picking-parity performance, and
- leave a legacy to accelerate development of any agri-robotic system for all crops.
AGRI-OPENCORE delivers these objectives through unprecedented cross sector collaboration, the creation of an open ecosystem for innovation, and scaled cocreation and demonstration of technologies, trialled initially on English farms.
To deliver these objectives, AGRI-OPENCORE will create the world’s first open development platform (software and hardware) for agri-robotic crop harvesting. AGRI-OPENCORE provides open access to core software and interfaces that are hitherto unavailable to SME’s, but when adopted can be privately exploited by robotics companies.
AGRI-OPENCORE’s open ecosystem creates an enduring legacy available for any robotic company and farming system.