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Tom

Tom is The Small Robot Company's autonomous field robot for per-plant crop mapping and monitoring. It surveys fields at low ground pressure, locating crops...

Facts

Company
The Small Robot Company
Product type
agricultural_field_robot
Status
commercial
Primary capability
crop_monitoring
Website
https://smallrobotcompany.github.io/smallrobotco/intelligence.html

About Tom

Tom is The Small Robot Company's autonomous field robot for per-plant crop mapping and monitoring. It surveys fields at low ground pressure, locating crops and weeds so operators can make targeted treatment decisions.

Market context

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Summary

Type: Autonomous crop-monitoring robot

Core: Per-plant field mapping

Function: Collects high-resolution crop and weed data across fields with low soil compaction

Audience: Farmers, agronomists and crop-input companies

Specifications

average_survey_speed_ha_per_h
2.2 ha/h
crop_stage
Designed to operate over crops up to GS31
ground_pressure_relative
Approximately one-third of a human foot
ground_sample_distance_mm_per_px
Up to 0.39 mm/px mm/px
operating_mode
Autonomous field mapping and monitoring

Operations

Environment
farmland, arable_fields, outdoor_field_environment
Primary user
farmers, seed_companies, nutrient_companies, agronomists
Role
crop_monitoring, plant_counting, weed_detection, precision_agriculture
Interaction model
autonomous_mission_execution, field_mapping, plant_detection, remote_supervision
Mobility class
wheeled_ugv, low_ground_pressure_mobile_robot
Product detail
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