E-TERRY field robot - organic farming at scale
E-TERRY is the first autonomous field robot to combine a highly flexible carrier design and a break-through phenotyping algorithm that enables automated high-precision agriculture in real time. The robot is an open implement carrier that can be equipped with different tools to automate essential field processes (like weeding, harrowing, drilling, spraying) and collects field data for informed crop cultivation.
The E-TERRY achieves high precision agriculture (95% detection accuracy) through the integration of cameras and sensors backed by a computer vision algorithm that enables monitoring on a per-plant level allowing farmers to monitor crop quality, pest incidence, biomass and microclimate.
As a first commercial application, our agricultural robot mechanically removes weeds in onions and sugar beet, since these crops are grown in large volumes combined with exceptionally high weeding costs (€4,700 on average). E-TERRY achieves an impressive weed removal rate of 80%, significantly outperforming our main competitors (53% to 64%), cuts 40% of the manual weeding costs and offers streamlined operation saving up to 360 h/ha of manual work per season. By enhancing operational efficiency and driving down costs, E-TERRY will play a crucial role in helping organic farming scale.