Product profile
Upside Farming Robot
Upside Robotics develops small autonomous field robots for precision nutrient application in row crops. Its solar-powered platform follows crop rows, appli...
Facts
- Company
- Upside Robotics
- Product type
- autonomous_mobile_robot
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- manipulation
- Website
- https://upsiderobotics.com
About Upside Farming Robot
The robot combines crop-demand data with onboard navigation to deliver small nutrient doses close to individual plants rather than applying a uniform treatment across the whole field. Its compact form is designed to operate between established crop rows without requiring farms to adopt the scale or weight of a conventional autonomous tractor.
Upside describes a closed operating cycle in which the machine works independently, returns to recharge and refill, then redeploys. The company presents the system as a route to reducing fertiliser waste and recurring field-work costs, although throughput and performance figures should remain attributed to Upside until independently demonstrated across broader deployments.
Market context
manipulation
Summary
Type: Field robot
Core: Precision fertilizing
Function: Feed crops
Audience: Farmers
Specifications
- environment
- Outdoor: agricultural fields
- form_type
- Autonomous mobile robot
- power_energy_source
- Solar support (hybrid)
- power_propulsion
- Electric