Earth Rover

Farmer robots that do not use chemicals or damage the soil.

Resumen de la inversión

Categoría de impacto

Sistemas agroalimentarios

Tipo de inversión

Préstamo

Interés anual

Plazo

meses

Nivel de riesgo

B-

Earth Rover robots help vegetable and salad farmers control weeds using targetted concentrated light energy without chemicals or damaging the soil, supporting the trend towards organic no-till farming.

Earth Rover is raising 2 million euros to expand its R&D team and to commercialise its patent-pending LightWeeding robots. This innovative project is supported by ESA - the European Space Agency, as well as UKRI - the UK Research and Innovation organization. Both these institutions have assessed and provided grants for this project in excess of 750,000€. Investors including, the asset manager MERCIA, have invested around 500.000€ in the company.

The funds raised through GoParity will be used for:

Expanding the R&D team.
Implementing the Earth Rover pilot project on vegetable fields in Spain and the UK.

The technology seems promising and has attracted the attention of innovation institutions, grant providers, early investors, and of leading organic farmers Pollybell, the first adopters of the technology.

¿Cuál es el impacto?

Direct

Jobs creation: with the expansion of the R&D team and of the company’s operations, Earth Rover will create 30 new jobs in the next 3 years.
Support the adoption of clean technologies: with the LightWeeding technology, Earth Rover allows for a reduction of up to 50% in the use of chemicals in agriculture, thus reducing damage to biodiversity.
Support sustainable food production: weeding is one of the important challenges in organic food production, the solution brought by Earth Rover ensures a cheaper and more advantageous method for weeding in organic farms. At the same time, the solution improves food production productivity, since the laser weeders from Earth Rover do not damage the soil and do not result in crop loss due to mechanical weeding.

Indirect

Support to innovation and R&D: increasing research efforts for technology in agriculture has the potential to raise rural productivity and encourage innovation.

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Contribución a los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible
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Sobre el promotor

About

EARTH ROVER LIMITED

Earth Rover Limited se fundó en 2017 con el objetivo de desarrollar tecnologías para producir productos agrícolas frescos y sin productos químicos al alcance de todos los agricultores.

Actualmente, la empresa fabrica robots que automatizan los procesos de cultivo, cosecha y desherbado, utilizando inteligencia artificial y tecnologías avanzadas de recopilación de datos. Estas prestaciones permitirán reducir la dependencia de los productos químicos, mejorar la eficacia de la producción y reducir los residuos. Earth Rover nació en el Reino Unido, pero planea expandirse a otras partes de Europa a corto plazo y hacer de esta tecnología de producción más sostenible «una norma entre los agricultores».

Conozca al equipo:

James Brown, Cofundador, agricultor y Presidente no ejecutivo

Luke Robinson, Cofundador, Director de Operaciones no ejecutivo

David Whitewood, Consejero Delegado

Ricard Pardell, Director Técnico

James Barlow, Director Financiero

Sitio web del promotor

https://www.earthrover.farm/

Modelo de negocio
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