Ceres are thrilled to be featured by Cambridge Enterprise as our latest spin-out company JABAS.AI is officially launched. The Ceres team has supported the JABAS team to this exciting point in their commercialisation journey, bringing leading edge technology into the hands of growers.
See the full article on the Cambridge Enterprise website here: New agri-tech spinout enables autonomy in real time for agricultural robot fleets – Cambridge Enterprise
A Ceres Agri-Tech spinout, JABAS.AI (Just a Better Autonomy Solution) from the University of Lincoln, UK is actively tackling the challenge of robot fleets operating on farms with unstructured environments.
The technology provides safe, reliable, AI-enabled coordination of fleet-scale navigation solutions for any robot platform with on-the-go environment mapping. It can operate where GPS, connectivity and environmental predictability is inconsistent.
JABAS.AI is a spinout from Ceres Agri-Tech, a partnership between the universities of Lincoln, Cambridge and East Anglia, funded by Research England and EPSRC, which is translating world leading UK university science into tangible solutions for farmers with a pipeline of over 55 agri-tech innovations with global potential.
Robotics adoption in the agricultural sector has been limited due to the lack of reliable autonomy in real farm conditions. Furthermore, conventional GPS waypoint navigation does not work properly under canopy, in polytunnels or near structures.
The JABAS.AI platform moves away from GPS technology and instead uses a combination of lidar, computer vision and advanced localisation algorithms for optimal route selection. The technology can be integrated into any robot platform providing “autonomy-as-a-service”, reducing the need for regular human intervention and pre-deployment setup.
JABAS.AI is the latest spin-out in the Ceres Agri-Tech portfolio, which has a pipeline of over 55 agri-tech innovations with global potential and has launched five spin-outs to date. Together, the companies have created 34 high-value jobs in the rural sector and are developing innovative solutions for critical challenges for farmers, such as intelligent robotic mushroom harvesting (Agaricus Robotics), AI-enabled decision support and fruit forecasting (Fruitcast) and chemistry solutions to improve water resistance and other properties of fibres and fabrics, removing forever chemicals from industrial applications (Cellexcel).#
See original article on the Cambridge Enterprise website here: New agri-tech spinout enables autonomy in real time for agricultural robot fleets – Cambridge Enterprise
