¶ TrimBot2020 autonomous cutting machine
Description: TrimBot2020 is a European Union Horizon 2020 research project aimed at developing the first fully autonomous outdoor gardening robot capable of trimming plants such as rose bushes, hedges, and boxwood topiary. It ran from 2016 to 2019 and involved leading universities, robotics labs, and Bosch as an industry partner. TrimBot2020 is a mobile, vision-guided gardening robot designed to navigate outdoor environments and automatically prune plants. The robot is built on a modified Bosch Indego robotic lawnmower platform and equipped with: A Kinova robotic arm holding an electric trimming tool; 3D vision sensors for scene mapping and plant-shape analysis; Advanced navigation, localisation, and visual serving algorithms that let it move across complex terrain and align tools with branches and leaves
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| Company | Country | Type | Website | Available in Australia? | Year | Status | Remarks | TRL | Employees | Colour | Inventors | Patent Model. |
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| Mapix Technologies | UK | Link |