Agri-OpenCore brought together a leading grower, a robotics manufacturer, a robotics software company and a university research centre to build an open core for agricultural robots.
| Partner | About | Role in Agri-OpenCore |
|---|---|---|
| APS Group | The UK’s leading supplier of British tomatoes to the high street, and growers and suppliers of tomatoes and other produce. | Project management, grower partner for the tomato use case, and collaborative business models for robot adoption. |
| University of Lincoln, Lincoln Agri-Robotics | Lincoln Agri-Robotics, funded by Research England’s Expanding Excellence in England fund, links the Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology (LIAT) and the Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems (L-CAS). | The open software platform: digital twins, ROS 2 architecture, autonomy and navigation, perception, human-robot safety, standards and knowledge exchange. |
| Dogtooth Technologies | Has developed and manufactured fruit harvesting robots since 2015, and leads the development of commercially viable crop harvesting. | Strawberry harvesting robots and on-farm deployment, and the tomato harvesting protocol and commercial case. |
| Extend Robotics | Founded in 2019, uses immersive virtual reality, robotics and artificial intelligence so that people and robots can work together more productively and safely. | Intuitive VR interfaces for fruit picking, supervision of fleets of semi-autonomous robots, and teaching robots by demonstration. |