"Mows, Tows, Knows"
Directed Machines of Seattle builds the Land Care Robot, an all-electric autonomous machine that mows, tows up to 10,000 lb and monitors solar and farm sites.
Directed Machines is a Seattle, Washington-based company that designs the Land Care Robot (LCR), a 100 percent electric autonomous machine for vegetation management and site work. The company summarises the robot's three services as Mow, Tow and Know. For mowing, the LCR runs without fuel, fumes or greenhouse-gas emissions at a typical noise level of 55 dB, which allows it to work continuously around sensitive sites. As a tow vehicle it is rated to haul 10,000 lb or more. The Know service uses different sensors and implements to detect critical events on the sites it patrols.
Target verticals listed by Directed Machines are solar farms, agriculture, airports, field mowing, golf and turf, nurseries and roadsides. The company states that its robots typically cost up to 50 percent less than other solutions in their class; pricing is provided after a site consultation and a full proposal rather than published. Technology partners and references on its website include a RealSense case study on smart agriculture and renewable energy, a Raspberry Pi success story describing how the LCR frees a farmworker for more demanding tasks, and a T-Mobile article on land management that reports greater biodiversity at sites that stopped using chemical treatments.
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All-electric autonomous robot that mows, tows and monitors solar, farm, airport and turf sites.
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