Robotics product line
Six machines are designed. None of them exist yet, and this page says so before it says anything else, because a product line described in the present tense would be a claim about a workshop that is not there.
None of these are built.
None of these exist today. They are the product line the blueprint designs, in the order it plans to reach them. A working unit is the only thing that would move an entry out of this list and into a delivery record. Until then, what follows is the blueprint’s design intent, quoted rather than paraphrased.
The line
The description, the reason it fits and the stage are the blueprint's own. The stage is plan timing, not a delivery date.
Commercial drones for mapping and spraying, operated by Ifenri
Why it fits: Fast revenue and data; no hardware research and development
Stage
Buy and operate, year 0 to 2
The drones are bought, not invented. This is the rung of the ladder where the company is supposed to learn what breaks, in the field, before it designs anything.
Small ground robot for row scouting and data collection
Why it fits: Safest first robot; teaches navigation and ruggedisation
Stage
Prototype by month 6
The blueprint calls this the safest first robot, and the narrowness is the point: one task, one crop, one paid job at a time. Navigation and ruggedisation learned here get reused by every later machine.
Sprayer or weeder rover with precise nozzle control
Why it fits: Cuts chemical use and labour; paid per hectare
Stage
Year 2 to 3
The sprayer and weeder come second, not first, because they carry the highest consequence of a mistake. Precise nozzle control is the whole engineering problem; spraying rules are a separate open question.
Add-on guidance and control kit for existing tractors and implements
Why it fits: Uses machines farmers already own; lowers capital need
Stage
Evaluate in year 2
A retrofit kit sells into machines farmers already own, which keeps the capital requirement down and sidesteps the sales problem of asking a farmer to replace a working tractor.
Solar sensor node for soil and weather; storage and drying variants
Why it fits: Cheap, rugged, reusable across the chain
Stage
Year 1 to 2
A node is the cheap end of the line, and that is deliberate — many units, few moving parts, reusable in the field and later in stores and dryers.
Solar charging and storage station for drones and robots
Why it fits: Solves power and theft problems
Stage
Year 1 to 2
The dock answers two problems the field actually presents: where the power comes from, and how a machine left in a field overnight is still there in the morning.
Why R1 goes first. Row scouting is the task where a failure costs a crop record rather than a person or a chemical application. Building the navigation, the safety supervisor and the ruggedisation on the least dangerous job is how the harder machines get a foundation instead of a prototype.
Design constraints
The architecture is the recommended approach, not a description of a running system. It is written down here because the field conditions are the specification: dust, heat, vibration, mud, patchy connectivity, and a repair that a local technician has to be able to finish in a day.
Record every failure and near-miss; no field release without a written test report.
| Layer | Recommended approach |
|---|---|
| Compute | Raspberry Pi and microcontrollers for prototypes; Jetson-class for vision; offline-first |
| Robot software | ROS 2, C++ and Python; simulation in Gazebo or Isaac Sim |
| Localisation | GNSS with RTK where available, IMU, wheel odometry, visual cues |
| Perception | Camera-based detection and segmentation with ONNX or TensorRT on the edge |
| Control and safety | PID and path following; hardware e-stop, geofence, watchdog, remote kill, black-box logging |
| Connectivity | Offline-first; sync when connected; LoRa, 4G or satellite where useful |
| Fleet and data | FastAPI, PostgreSQL and PostGIS, object storage, over-the-air updates, telemetry dashboards |
| Hardware | Modular frames, standard connectors, swappable battery packs, sealed enclosures, easy-to-find spare parts |
Made or bought locally
Frames, Enclosures, Harnesses, Battery packaging
Imported
Motors, Controllers, Sensors, Cells
The sourcing split above is a plan, and the import side of it is one of the blueprint’s open questions — duty, foreign exchange and customs treatment are carried as confirm on the manufacturing and supply chain page, next to the budget lines and the metrics that would show whether any of it works.
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