Ground-breaking Wilma up for computing award

A ROBOT company's artificial intelligence has been nominated for a computing award.
By The Newsroom
Published 27th Apr 2018, 07:00 BST
Portsmouth-made Farmbot by Small Robot Company Premiers at DIT's GREAT Festival of Innovation in Hong Kong caption: Small Robot Company co-founder Ben Scott-Robinson with the prototype Rachael robot on the airplane.Portsmouth-made Farmbot by Small Robot Company Premiers at DIT's GREAT Festival of Innovation in Hong Kong caption: Small Robot Company co-founder Ben Scott-Robinson with the prototype Rachael robot on the airplane.
Portsmouth-made Farmbot by Small Robot Company Premiers at DIT's GREAT Festival of Innovation in Hong Kong caption: Small Robot Company co-founder Ben Scott-Robinson with the prototype Rachael robot on the airplane.

Small Robot Company is hoping to scoop the Big Data Excellence Award for its ground-breaking ‘nervous system’ called Wilma.

The firm uses robots to improve the way that food is produced, minimising chemical usage.

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Wilma will work alongside the company’s farming robots, Tom, Dick and Harry, by giving them a digital view of a farm.

Small Robot Company co-founder Ben Scott-RobinsonSmall Robot Company co-founder Ben Scott-Robinson
Small Robot Company co-founder Ben Scott-Robinson

The robots are created in Portsmouth. Co-founder Ben Scott-Robinson said: ‘Technology has changed almost every industry – but farming is still stuck on analogue. We want to digitise the field,

‘The digital farm will comprise a broad ecosystem encompassing robotics, drones, autonomous vehicles, big data and artificial intelligence.’

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