Saga Robotics Ltd

Saga Robotics is the company responsible for the design, development, and production of the world-leading agricultural robot, Thorvald. The company's aim is to develop robotic solutions that address the growing labour shortages in agriculture, as well as making agriculture more sustainable and energy efficient. Saga Robotics have developed an autonomous and completely self-propelled robot that uses advanced algorithms to navigate in challenging conditions found on farms. Saga Robotics is also involved in several projects where they develop tools for strawberry picking, weeding, crop prediction and much more.

Until now agricultural robots have been designed to operate in only one type of environment, with no or limited possibilities for customisation. Thorvald is a new module-based robot design that allows for vastly different robots to be built using the same basic modules, and rebuilt using only basic hand tools. The modules are designed to enable high quality robots that can quickly be customised for a given application in a given environment, such as a greenhouse, tunnel, open field and orchard. It performs tasks such as light treatment for disease management, picking fruits and vegetables, phenotyping, in-field transportation, cutting grass for forage production, spraying and data collection/crop prediction. Thorvald operates entirely on its own, using advanced navigation methods and artificial intelligence to perform a wide variety of tasks. The robot is small and lightweight, allowing it to perform many tasks on a farm more effectively and for less cost than by using tractors or manual labourers.