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Thoughts on this one now? Here's an image of it in blueberries.

What about these spaces? http://www.agrbt.com/images/Video/in%20field%20operations.mp4 Could anyone see it working there? We've concluded that the wine grape market is not the right one for us. Bin trailers are not something we want to compete with.

Thanks! Here it is hustling around. .

We have some improvements from the video in terms of prototype robustness Here are the types of operations we intend to run it in for early customers Does it look up for the task in those types of settings?

An update: Here is what we have now: And some more information on refined machines here: www.agrbt.com/products.html I think we've found that wine grapes aren't the best jumping off point, but that table grapes, blueberries, cane berries, and stone fruits seem like good ones. We are...

balatonwine, thank you for the feedback. very helpful. A few points/clarifying questions below. (1) How large is your operation, and is percentage of time spent picking versus shuttling picked produce around a concern? (2) And how are empty trays delivered to the pickers? A obvious omission...

Looking for feedback now on our concept. Could forum members check out this video (see link below), and give us an idea of whether something like this might create value? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-3Fk6O-ObE We've spent a lot of time talking with growers of hand picked crops like...

We are making progress on our product, and have a survey for customer feedback. Could anyone on the forum that has an interest in a robotic following cart fill this out? Thanks! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf0WmXDGVPLtIlxjpmOz3L5y7jWT-NZeJYYX2hEO2L5UVO1Wg/viewform?usp=sf_link To...

Any takers here for helping us sell something like this (selling for $4K or so - this product in a more commercial form (i.e. Robust, farm tough, etc.): http://www.agrbt.com/AGR%20Burro%20Overview.pdf) or perhaps in buying an early build? If interested, send me a note ([email protected]). What...

What if while pruning you had a cart behind with a large volume capacity bed to throw prunings right into? The cart could return to dump itself, and then come back to you. You would not have to get into a tractor at all and could just keep working. Value? Or none?

Are guys removing prunings very proactively? Or do they just drop them to the ground and then take them into a windrow and then pick them up later with a tractor?

Does this use case exist in many places (guys collecting bins to larger place by hand, or carrying bins to collection place by hand)? Or is everyone running a vineyard tractor with wagon behind it and picking up bins where they have been left by pickers? When you say picking up the printings...

Havlikn, good point. Our assumption (maybe wrong?) is that there are a lot of tasks such as picking where people are picking, then marching lugs back and forth to a larger collection point. If our Burro robot could carry 250 pounds of picked produce and run the route back to a collection point...

Here:http://www.agrbt.com/AGR%20Burro%20Overview.pdf is a 1 page overview of the idea, now more fully showcased. Any more feedback/thoughts?

Boatboy, it seems to do fine at that speed. 3 MPH is generally around average walking speed. Loaded up very heavily on bumpier ground with 3 or 4 plastic lugs on top it would have to be slowed a bit perhaps.

Any feedback on the unit economics shown here? Any feedback on the unit economics shown here for a laborer in harvest and transit time etc.?

NorCal - super interesting for sure! Thanks for sharing. From our perspective, it seems like the low hanging fruit (no pun intended) for near term commercial robotics is with fairly simple products, however, rather than very complex pruning robots which are still a few years away from what...

Johny99, do you have a link anywhere to the elevated tram systems that you have seen? If so would love to see it. Thanks!

NorCal - when you say $16 loaded are you referring to a $16 labor rate? Sorry, didn't understand that part of your comment. Regarding navigation, in your operations, are there paths that an operator would walk that are decently maintained, or is everything a 90 degree slope with mud etc...

For first couple hundred, we would try to sell them for between $4 and 5K. Price will come down as we scale up. This is a cost up (what it costs us to build), not value/price down (the value a customer would get from one) estimate. For $4-5K you'd get 250 pound payload capacity, 5 miles run...