Greg Chiocco’s Post

Colorful cauliflower! The FarmWise Vulcan robotic weeding implement working in some rolling hills. Covering 3 beds at once, the Vulcan delivers productivity in a variety of conditions.

A view through the keyhole! This is what the Intelligent Plant Scanner sees on each row of the FarmWise Vulcan robotic weeding implement. Using a foundation model, the outline and stem of each organic lettuce plant and beneficial insectary Alyssum are precisely located along with a real time speed calculation using visual odometry techniques (with a single camera!). This video was captured at a little over 1 mph but the picture looks the same in excess of 15 mph.

Taking flight! Two FarmWise Vulcan robotic weeding implements, one with wings folded and the other with wings spread. Both are getting final inspections before being delivered to customers.

Friend or foe? It all starts with excellent images from the FarmWise Intelligent Plant Scanner running a highly refined foundation model. The blue dot represents the stem of the plant to ensure that the Vulcan robotic weeding implement carefully kills the weeds but doesn’t harm the target crop.

Beautiful machines in a gorgeous setting. The FarmWise Vulcan robotic weeding implement working in concert with a 6155M. This combo regularly weeds 20 acres a shift.

Radicchio red! Your edge model performance is only as good as your data set and ML Ops. Built on over 7 years of field experience, FarmWise has created a huge annotated data set (and not just in veggies) and an adaptable ML Ops pipeline. When coupled with the Intelligent Plant Scanner (IPS) running our foundation model, it opens the door for many applications beyond just weeding.

Constantly evolving. The FarmWise Vulcan robotic weeding implement testing new actuators in an organic lettuce field planted with beneficial alyssum. These new parts coupled with our foundation model will enable a suite of valuable features for our customers.

6-5-4-3-2-1…..lines of crops! In this case, the AI-powered FarmWise Vulcan is in a 4 line broccoli field but can be configured for anything from 6 down to 1 crop line as needed. And spanning 3 beds, our customers are regularly covering 15-20 acres in one shift.

White broccoli? That’s not a new variety, it’s just a little herbicide burn. Fortunately the FarmWise Foundation model has seen something like this before, so the Vulcan robotic weeding implement had no problems cleaning up this direct seeded broccoli field.