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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.


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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
02:23you
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