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TerraClear Creating ‘Roomba’ of Rock Picking

Organization: TerraClear
Country: USA
Website: www.terraclear.com
Year Founded: 2017
Number of Employees: 11-50
Innovation Class: Technology, Services & Research Innovation
Innovation Subclass: Product Introduction

TerraClear has a vast opportunity to reduce the labor and time needed to prep fields for planting.

Description:
RBRlogoTerraClear’s rock picker, which attaches to skid steers and compact loaders, can collect up to 400 rocks per hour, picking rocks weighing up to 300 pounds without any manual labor.

First, the system uses a drone to map a field and determine the size and location of every rock that needs to be picked. That information is mapped and the most efficient path for picking up the rocks is plotted. The picker follows the path on the map and with the push of a button picks up each rock.

TerraClear is working to integrate artificial intelligence and computer vision with tractor guidance systems to fully automate the entire rock picking process.

Analysis:
Robots are ideal for tasks that are dull, dirty, and dangerous. Thus, rock picking is a perfect application for robotics. These large, heavy rocks not only break the backs of those picking them up, but they can also damage expensive precision farming machinery that is in common use by farmers for planting, irrigating and harvesting.

TerraClear founder Brent Frei grew up on a farm in Idaho, meaning he has first-hand knowledge of the problem to guide development of the product. There are 400-plus million arable acres worldwide that have been waiting for a cost-effective and productive solution to removing rocks. The system TerraClear is developing has a vast opportunity and can reduce the labor and time needed to prep fields for planting. - Steve Crowe

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