Odd.Bot Weed Whacker robot help

Current methods in arable farming are far from sustainable: the scale increase and mono-crops threaten the bio-diversity, the big diesel powered machines emit CO2, heavily compress the soil and a lot of chemicals are being used for our food production, all degrading the soil.

The alternative is already out there and getting more traction: organic farming. The downside is that organic farming requires a lot of manual hand weeding work, especially in the row in-between the plants. 

The small solar powered weeding robot from Odd.Bot can detect both the crops and weeds and remove the weed mechanically in the row. 

It can save organic farming up to 50% of their current costs for manual weeding and help conventional farmers to convert. Odd.Bot will save 170k litres of chemicals within 4 yrs.

We focus first on assisting organic farmers first who now have to revert to mechanical weeding which they do with hoeing machines and manual weeding to remove the weeds in the rows in-between the plants. Labour is hard to come by and expensive and currently one of the main reason for farmers to stick to conventional farming and full field chemical spraying. 100 hrs of handweeding per hectare are 

Seasonal workers are hard to come by, need to be transported and housing need to be arranged. 

We offer a lightweight solar-powered robot as a service that can detect and distinguish weeds from crops on outdoor grown seeding cultivations and remove the weeds mechanically. On the robot 

Chemicals like herbicides account for 29% of all agri chemicals sold in Europe. Globally the market for chemical herbicides is 26 billion dollar market annually. 

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The team has 5 key individuals that are engaged in the management team and 5 part timers and 3 contractors. The core team consists of:

Mister Martijn Lukaart, Founder and CEO (100% ownership, 100% engagement) is driven by creating a positive impact and contributing towards a more sustainable future. He holds a Bachelor in Business Administration. Martijn has an entrepreneurial spirit and has been part of many innovative businesses, helping them with the business development activities.

Mister Erik Vermeer is the CTO (100% engagement) is an experienced agri-robotics developer who has experience with constructing an asparagus harvesting robot. He holds a degree in mechatronics and has over 15 years of experience with designing and testing mechatronics modules and components in the agricultural and automotive sector. 

Miss Lehar Kewalramani Electronics Lead (100% engagement) is electronics engineer with master degree in robotics. She has thorough experience with low-level hardware, dealing with microcontrollers, sensors and correlated software. She is specialised in robotics and electronics, with specific expertise in computer vision, machine learning and energy efficiency.

Mister Edwin Bos, COO (20% engagement) holds a master degree in communication and organisational management. He is a senior corporate communications professional. Together with Martijn, he is engaged in developing the marketing and communication strategy in order to successfully reach the relevant target market.

Richard Elings, CFO (20% engagement) is a financial expert with over 15 years experience in financial reporting, planning and analysis. He is be responsible for the financial compliance in the project. 

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We offer weeding as service