Crover Gets Funding to Enhance 'Grain-swimming Robot' Automation
Summary
Crover, the deep-tech robotics and agri-tech organisation, has been awarded \xa350,000 in Innovate UK funding to progress its study of remote autonomous operations of a grain-swimming robot.The Edinburgh firms robotic grain storage management solution provides a new way to improve and automate monitoring and management activities. Without the CROVER robot, post-harvest losses during storage can be anywhere between 2%-10% each year.Both The Scotland 5G Centre (S5GC) and CeeD supported Crovers latest Innovate UK funding bid, with the next stage of testing being conducted within S5GCs Forth Valley innovation hub this month.Crover will make use of the expertise of the S5GC team and its facilities to enhance the automation capabilities of the system, also through the optimisation of the data transfer.Lorenzo Conti, founder and managing director, Crover, said: We are delighted about the support, helping us take our mission of enabling humanity to reach below the surface further, and we look forward to the new collaboration with The Scotland 5G Centre and CeeD.Automation will no doubt benefit grain storage operators hugely, however, without a mechanism to report learnings and captured by the CROVER robot, all this effort is wasted. The value that 5G technologies can provide organisations of any shape, size and sector knows no bounds.It is our mission to support innovative SMEs that are passionate about futureproofing their operations to bring their ideas to life. A connected world relies on innovation, collaboration and open mindedness so its fantastic to see Scottish businesses, like Crover, paving the way.Joe Pacitti, managing director, CeeD, further commented: CeeD is really pleased to be able to help many of our members around a range of support activities and connections. Where Crover is concerned, helping the business through signposting for partners previously and in this case directing them to funding partners and seeing a successful outcome is really great news.Helping early stage companies to find both funding mechanisms and industry partners (consortia) is an area we at CeeD are increasingly helping members to navigate their way through.Conti recently joined Scotlands National Robotarium, where Crover is based, which will provide the company access to state-of-the-art development facilities and to the wider industrial, academic, and investment robotic ecosystem which will support its ambitious growth plans.The S5GC and CeeD established a partnership three years ago, allowing both organisations to connect with new audiences, raise awareness of the benefits of advanced technology to businesses and to build a two-way communication stream to explore and address business challenges.Over the past three years, S5GC and CeeD have hosted a number of joint events, including on the role which 5G and data connectivity plays in reducing carbon emissions.