Today we look back in detail at another highlight of 2023 for us, SLIMERS. This slug control project SLIMERS, is being delivered by Innovate UK, in partnership with @BofinFarmers & Crop Health & Protection - CHAP. Looking for a sustainable solution to deal with these pests!
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Season’s Greetings from all of us at Small Robot Co.

This’ll warm your heart on #ChristmasEve . A farm in Yorkshire has found love for a lonely Reindeer. Sven who lives at Little Haven Farm, had been missing his friend Klaus, a reindeer who died. The farm fundraised to buy Daisy & it was love at first sight!
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Join us for a webinar looking at introducing some exciting tech to on-farm trials as part of the SLIMERS. We will have great speakers from Small Robot Company & Crop Health & Protection - CHAP - register now:
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Make sure you register for this exciting webinar coming up in the New Year looking at introducing some exciting tech to on-farm trials as part of the SLIMERS. We will have great speakers from Small Robot Company & Crop Health & Protection - CHAP - register now:
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Do you want to hear the latest news from SLIMERS? @BofinFarmers has a webinar coming up in January with speakers from BOFIN, Crop Health & Protection - CHAP and our own Small Robot Co Technical Lead Ray King. Register here now: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
#SlimerProject #SustainableFarming

Wow this Hyundai electric-vehicle plant in Singapore is mostly run by robots! Robotic arms are used to assemble the cars, and robot dogs monitor what’s going on and report any issues back to the humans in charge!
wsj.com/video/robot-do…
#Robots #Robotics

Our small robot Tom has 2 key components manufactured by 3D printing from Protolabs. The SSD mount & steering actuator cap, essential to his job gathering data on individual plants, allowing for precision fertiliser applications & spot-apply herbicides:
protolabs.com/en-gb/resource…

The SLIMERS project on the BBC!

Who else spotted the SLIMERS project on BBC News? Looking to control slugs more #sustainably , this latest Innovate UK project is a 3 year £2.6M research programme involving more than 100 UK farms in partnership with @BofinFarmers & Crop Health & Protection - CHAP. harper-adams.ac.uk/news/210107/wa…

Get baked beans on your Christmas list this year! The first ever British-grown baked beans have been canned in a Lincolnshire factory, after being grown on our friend Andrew Ward 🇬🇧🚜's farm in Leadenham. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
#SustainableFarming #BritishFarming

Today is #WorldSoilDay , a day to look at the importance of healthy soil! We know the importance of regenerative farming and our Per Plant focus aims to minimise impact on crop growth.
For 10 amazing facts about soil check out the Soil Association website.
soilassociation.org/causes-campaig…

More news of #robots doing good! These subsea gliders are being used to check ocean currents for signs of climate collapse. They can dive to depths of 1,000m gathering data, and are able to reach some previously inaccessible places!
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla…

Today we throw back to exciting news, we won a Tech South West Award!

Some truly inspiring tech innovators won on the night and we were delighted to win the AgriTech award.

Thank you Tech South West

#TSWAwards #Agritech #TBT

Nice to see that our small robot Tom has made this list from Sifted of their seven favourite “agreeable” robots. All of these bots are really quite charming to look at so Tom is in good company!
sifted.eu/articles/the-b…
#Robotics #Robots

Our Tomv4 robot is happy to work in any weather, including the sort of wet and boggy conditions we’re seeing this month!
Check out this video from our Instagram to see how Tom tackles very muddy terrain!
#Agritech #BritishFarming #SustainableFarming