Meet Thorvald, the robot protecting strawberries and grapes |Euronews Tech Talks

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Meet Thorvald, the robot protecting strawberries and grapes |Euronews Tech Talks  Euronews Tech Talks sits down with Lars Grimstad, CTO and co-founder of the Norwegian agri-tech company Saga Robotics, to learn how its robots treat plants to reduce the use of chemicals.   READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/12/10/meet-thorvald-the-robot-protecting-strawberries-and-grapes-euronews-tech-talks  Euronews Next is a future-focused news section covering global innovation, science and technology with a European perspective. Our dedicated team of journalists aims to educate and inspire today’s leaders by providing them with analysis and insights into the people and organisations shaping our future

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00:00Our main offering is that we treat glass with UV lights so instead of using chemicals we just do

00:26light but for that to work you have to do it pretty frequently and it's also most effective at

00:34night so it's really a perfect application for robots right so as robots they don't need sleep

00:39they can just drive around at night and treat the plants a couple times a week

00:51instead of driving around with like big heavy tractors compacting soil and so on you have

00:56autonomous robots so like one person can be in charge of a fleet of robots rather than having

01:02a single driver per machine and this high frequency farming allows us to approach farming in a new way

01:14it is actually built up of modules it's it's more or less like lego for field robots you can take

01:20these modules and we keep configuring into two pro robots that makes sense for a given environment

01:26and for strawberry farms and vineyards the way we have configured this robot is that it has kind of an

01:33arch shaped frame so it kind of dries over the plants and where you can treat the plants from all sides

01:49so if all these machines are owned by private companies we are going to have a big problem so i

01:57think that is very important the european commission really start thinking about how to tackle this without

02:04losing the economical value that it has and so that the welfare is properly distributed

02:20so

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