RoboCrop project uses autonomous robot dog to improve farming

A project known as RoboCrop has used an autonomous robot dog to reduce costs, improve crop yields, and cut down on the use of pesticides and other chemicals commonly used in agriculture.

The RoboCrop system is based on Spot, one of Boston Dynamics’ most famous agile robots.

The quadrupedal robot was one of the company’s first designs to be made commercially available and has been used in a number of settings.

The project, based at MTC Liverpool, won funding from Innovate UK in March 2021 to demonstrate how automated systems could reduce the use of chemicals. Learn more.