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Directed Machines
Builds the Land Care Robot (LCR), a 100% electric, solar-charged autonomous utility ground robot that mows, tows, grades and hauls on farms, ranches, golf courses, nurseries and solar sites. The in-house autonomy stack (developed in about two years from autumn 2018) uses RealSense depth cameras and low-cost compute, and the fleet has been hardened over tens of thousands of kilometers in structured and unstructured environments. Robots have been on sale since March 2020 with a growing fleet across the US and Canada, connected over T-Mobile's cellular network for remote supervision. Founder George Chrysanthakopoulos previously led a consumer robotics initiative at Microsoft and was a VMware fellow.
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Land Care Robot (LCR)
- 100% electric, solar-charged autonomous machine that mows, tows and hauls across solar farms and agricultural land
Power system and autonomous task set of the utility ground robot
Claim source - Fleet hardened over tens of thousands of kilometers in structured and unstructured environments since going on sale in March 2020
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Claim source - Uses RealSense depth sensing for perception in agriculture and renewable-energy land management
Primary 3D perception sensor of the autonomy stack
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