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A quick time-lapse of Tortuga's UV-C service at THE NEW FOREST FRUIT CO. in the UK. In the past few years, agronomists have shown that you can prevent powdery mildew outbreaks by shining the right amount of UV-C light on plants at night. Tortuga's robots shine UV-C light on the plants while driving themselves autonomously up and down the rows. Operators change the robots to the next available row and do it all over again - treating a 2.5Ha glasshouse in ~4-5 hours. The result is happy plants and a very aesthetically pleasing robot "flying formation!" Glasshouses can have different "rail" configurations (the metal pipes on the ground), and because Tortuga's robots drive themselves on their own wheels, they can operate over the top of rails, with no rails, or with one wheel inside the rail and one wheel out. This flexibility is critical to adapt to all the many different farms that exist. The same robots were picking strawberries outside in the fields the very next morning. https://lnkd.in/gR_2ANP9 Learn more at https://lnkd.in/dB9ktYM and https://lnkd.in/gVfw8Hib

Tortuga UV-C in a strawberry glasshouse

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