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ACCELERATING THE WORLD'S TRANSITION TO SUSTAINABLE ABUNDANT AGRICULTURE

"Sustainable abundance by AI and robotics, that's the future we are headed for." -Elon Musk, Technoking of Tesla

Fieldbot's mission is to create highly profitable and sustainable farming methods that increase productivity, lower costs, mitigate nitrogen leaching and runoff, conserve water and energy, reduce agrochemical usage, eliminate pesticide spray drift, and lessen the environmental impact of row crop agriculture.

Fieldbot is an "AI-enabling technology" startup that develops electric power systems and autonomous farm machinery solutions for the global agriculture equipment market. Fieldbot seeks to augment crop plants with robotic appendages, computer vision, and proprietary self-learning AI-powered machine intelligence.

"The irrigation pivot field is an automated crop factory embedded with the agriculture industry’s largest robotic arm. The FIELDBOT PIVOT is a giant field robot uniquely capable of precisely delivering water, food, medicine, and continuous 24/7 health monitoring to row crops with industry-first autonomous crop imaging. It incorporates physical AI for autonomous navigation and perception while simultaneously functioning as an AI training data platform for embodied AI."

"It will be a giant field robot." -Chief Executive Officer at Valmont Industries   (Valmont acquires startup Prospera for $300 million)

UPGRADING THE EQUIPMENT

Irrigation pivots, or simply "pivots", also referred to as center pivot irrigation systems or centre pivot irrigation systems, are large, self-propelled, overhead sprinkler systems used in row crop agriculture that move in a circular pattern around a central pivot point connected to a center-fed pressurized irrigation water source.

Irrigation pivots are capable of (1) irrigation, the practice of applying water to soil and crops, (2) fertigation, the practice of applying nitrogen fertilizer and other nutrients to soil and crops via direct injection into the center-fed pressurized irrigation water source, and (3) chemigation, the practice of applying both chemical and biological crop protection products, also referred to as crop protectants, to soil and crops via direct injection into the center-fed pressurized irrigation water source. Similar mechanized irrigation systems also include linear irrigation systems, or simply "linears", and lateral move irrigation systems, or simply "laterals".

An astounding one-half of the total irrigated row crop acres in the U.S. are under irrigation pivots, the leading form of all agricultural irrigation methods, including drip irrigation and surface flood or gravity-fed irrigation. Moreover, virtually every irrigation pivot in operation today is based almost entirely on the original 1969 system design (U.S. Patent 3,608,826) with very little change from then until now. This one single fact presents a unique opportunity.

Integral to this fifty-year-old system design is the start-stop move operation of the multiple intermediate wheel towers that align and, ultimately, drive the overhead pipe spans in a circular pattern around the field. Each intermediate wheel tower of every irrigation pivot in operation today maintains alignment of the individual tower sections with a simple electromechanical “microswitch” that turns a center drive motor on and off at full torque roughly once per minute in a follow the leader arrangement. The result of this outmoded and abusive drive method is a slow, unreliable, imprecise watering system with limited intelligence and capability.

New Fieldbot PRECISION UPGRADES universally add more reliability, capability, precision, and intelligence to any existing  “start-stop move” irrigation pivot.

CONVERTING THE MARKET

Over the next several years, the conversion of every wheel tower of every irrigation pivot from start-stop move to patented CONSTANT MOVE creates a multi-billion-dollar market opportunity in transforming these giant antiquated watering systems into fast, reliable, precise autonomous crop platforms for the new era of AI-powered agriculture. To accelerate time-to-value, a RaaS (Robot-as-a-Service) business model can be applied, offering lower initial costs and faster deployment.

“Everything that moves will be robotic.” -Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO, NVIDIA 

The TAM (total addressable market) for Fieldbot PRECISION UPGRADES is estimated to be over $20 billion just in the modernizing of the more than 600,000 slow, unreliable, imprecise, electromechanically driven start-stop move irrigation pivots, driven by over 4,000,000 legacy fixed-speed electric powertrains, watering over 100 row crop varieties in 100 countries worldwide.

ENABLING AUTONOMOUS CROP PROTECTION

Fieldbot PRECISION UPGRADES universally repurpose existing start-stop move irrigation pivots into ultra-high-speed CONSTANT MOVE irrigation pivots that, when newly used to more effectively apply costly crop protectants, e.g., pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, as all-electric, autonomous alternatives to conventional petroleum-based application methods such as ground sprayers and aircraft, provide a massive ROI (return on investment) to the customer resulting from significantly higher crop yields at much lower production costs with no gas or diesel emissions.

“For commercial growers of high-value potato crops, the single greatest ‘pain point’ is the application of crop protectants. As for prescribing the right product-market fit to fulfill this unmet need, Fieldbot PRECISION UPGRADES are those rare must-have ‘painkillers’ in a vast sea of nice-to-have AgTech vitamins.”

ADDING MORE CAPABILITY AND PRECISION AT SCALE

Today, there exists a unique opportunity to advance worldwide row crop agriculture toward more sustainable, abundant, profitable, and environmentally and climate-friendly farming methods using modern Fieldbot PRECISION UPGRADES that easily and cost-effectively retrofit onto conventional large-scale agriculture equipment already placed and operating in a global agriculture equipment aftermarket.

Benefits of upgrading to ultra-high-speed CONSTANT MOVE include:

• Added ultra-high-speed autonomous crop imaging*
• Added ultra-high-speed autonomous crop protection*
• Added ultra-high-speed multipass variable-rate irrigation*
• Added ultra-high-speed small seed germination*
• Added ultra-high-speed crop canopy cooling*
• Added ultra-high-speed hay dew simulation*
• Greater application uniformity and precision
• Better product coverage and timing
• Improved system reliability
• Less component wear-and-tear
• Less wheel tracking (fewer ruts)
• Less getting stuck in the mud
• Increased machine uptime
• Increased water and energy savings
• Reduced WDEL (wind drift evaporative losses)
• Reduced fertilizer and chemical usage
• Reduced labor and equipment service expense
• Higher crop yields with improved crop quality

*New sustainable farming method invented by Fieldbot

ADVANCING NEXT-GENERATION PROPRIETARY CONTROLS

The custom and exclusive Fieldbot MOCB (motor optimization controller board) is at the core of all Fieldbot PRECISION UPGRADES.

This next-generation Intelligent Tower™ networked digital technology platform utilizes proprietary hardware and software to maintain synchronous system alignment across the full range of low to ultra-high irrigation pivot speeds. It leverages patented variable-speed motor control performance optimization that requires no operator learning curve or behavioral change.

The Fieldbot MOCB uniquely enables manual remote tower-by-tower drive control and smart diagnostics to identify and alert individual wheel tower "safety out" faults whenever the system unexpectedly shuts down.

In addition, to further improve overall system reliability, the first-of-its-kind Ethernet networked architecture enables real-time machine health monitoring with continuous uploading of electric motor data utilizing Starlink high-speed internet connectivity, all while maintaining critical machine functions with (1) over-the-air programming, (2) remote supervisory control of every Fieldbot MOCB on the network, and (3) onboard GPS for position-based "predictive maintenance" (U.S. Patent 10,384,557) at each wheel tower of every machine.

ACHIEVING PRODUCT-MARKET FIT WITH UNIVERSAL COMPATIBILITY

Over the last several years, with a well-seasoned, industry-expert team and extensive talent ecosystem, Fieldbot developed, patented, and implemented a highly profitable CONSTANT MOVE power electronics Fieldbot MOC (motor optimization controller) powered by an Intelligent Tower™ networked digital technology platform. Combining the Fieldbot MOC with an electric motor and gears results in the mechanized irrigation industry’s first fully integrated powertrain system.

"Seven independent fixed-speed electric powertrain products drive today's conventional seven-tower irrigation pivot. Tomorrow's next-generation irrigation pivot, of any size, will be universally driven by a single networked variable-speed electronic powertrain system."

PACKAGING EVERYTHING NEEDED INTO A SINGLE SKU

"An irrigation pivot is just 'pipe on wheels' until you give it a drive unit. Fieldbot is the future EDU (electric drive unit), comprised of motor, gears, and power electronics, of every new and existing irrigation pivot everywhere."

The Fieldbot MOC with ultra-high-speed electric motor equipment package is a single SKU that is 100% compatible with all brands, makes, and models of irrigation pivots, including all OEM main panel and tower box controls.

This unique one-of-a-kind feature of the new Fieldbot MOC requires absolutely no change to the existing irrigation pivot controls, including the percent timer, overwatering timer, safety microswitch, and industry-standard "start-stop move" microswitch, nor the addition of any costly analog sensors and tower alignment hardware (U.S. Patent 10,130,054, U.S. Patent 10,165,741). The Fieldbot MOC utilizes all existing irrigation pivot OEM main panel and tower box controls, span cables, power wires, control wires, and safety circuits.

UNIVERSALLY REPURPOSING ANY IRRIGATION PIVOT

Fieldbot PRECISION UPGRADES are low-cost, simple-to-use, and easy-to-maintain, while non-invasively interfacing with all brands of mechanical and computerized main panels and remote telemetry systems. Now, with only one component for 2x speed or two components for up to 10x speed, installed onto the base beam, installation time is reduced to a short "one hour per tower". Best of all, all legacy controls remain fully intact, and no unused components ever need to be removed from the field if renting ground or rotating crops.

In addition, Fieldbot PRECISION UPGRADES include two new proprietary safety features at the ground level of each wheel tower:

1. PWS (pedestrian warning system) for ultra-high-speed operation
2. Manual power disconnect switch for emergency system shutdown

Fieldbot PRECISION UPGRADES are the ultimate sustainable solution for universally repurposing any irrigation pivot over any row crop anywhere.

BUILDING A PROPRIETARY DATA CHANNEL

As part of the end tower Fieldbot MOC and located directly above the crop, Fieldbot  FIELD VISION continually uploads to the cloud, via an on-pivot Starlink dish, high-quality proprietary crop data, captured in real time with high-resolution cameras and multispectral sensors, in a unique "crop data ring" layer.

Included standard with all Fieldbot PRECISION UPGRADES, Fieldbot FIELD VISION enables a new category of Perimeter Intelligence™ acting as a "24/7 crop scout" throughout the entire growing season, providing real-time agronomic insights on crop health, crop area, canopy cover, canopy height, stand count, height and lodging, residual cover, flower cover, and more.

HARVESTING AI TRAINING DATA

Irrigation pivots represent one of the most under-leveraged assets in modern agriculture - and one of the most powerful gateways to artificial intelligence. These massive, all-electric, autonomous machines are uniquely positioned to become the central hubs for harvesting real-world, full-season, high-quality AI training data.

Similar to UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), ultra-high-speed CONSTANT MOVE irrigation pivots are all-electric UGVs (unmanned ground vehicles), readily repurposed into fleets of giant field robots newly capable of autonomously harvesting AI training data at scale.

Every growing season, vast amounts of proprietary farming knowledge are channeled through fleets of hundreds of thousands of irrigation pivots, continually orbiting above every variety of row crop: how much water, fertilizer, and crop protection products are applied, and when. With emerging technologies, gathering this information can now be automated through a combination of machine telematics and new AI agents that communicate directly with farmers and agronomists on a scale previously unimaginable.

When this crop input application data is precisely correlated with crop health data derived from crop imagery captured at a leaf level by on-pivot, high-resolution cameras and multispectral sensors equipped with GPS, real-time actionable insights are generated for the customer while an entirely new layer of agricultural intelligence emerges.

ENABLING AUTONOMOUS CROP IMAGING

By universally eliminating the stop-start move limitations of legacy irrigation pivots, patented CONSTANT MOVE technology enables daily, ultra-high-speed, non-irrigation passes that unlock autonomous crop imaging - producing a novel, full-season, visual record of every plant’s growth, stress, and response to crop input applications. For the first time, advanced crop data analytics can time-lapse these visual records across the entire growing season, from germination through senescence, at near-zero cost.

"The future will be owned by those who control the training data." -Julia McCoy, Future of AI: AGI and Superintelligence

ADVANCING AGRONOMIC SUPERINTELLIGENCE

Every production acre under CONSTANT MOVE can now be smartly transformed into a data-rich research acre. The resulting real-world, full-season, high-quality AI training data - time sequenced with precise crop input applications, geo-referenced on a plant-by-plant level basis, and scaled across irrigated row crop agriculture - will unleash a radical new paradigm in modern agriculture by enabling the rapid development and advancement of a central, self-optimizing AI model; the foundation of agronomic superintelligence.

Deep neural networks trained on high-quality proprietary crop data, harvested from every variety of row crop and aggregated from thousands of ultra-high-speed CONSTANT MOVE irrigation pivots, self-optimized at scale with fast AI learning loops precisely actuating insights and accurately measuring results in real time,  will yield a novel agronomic superintelligence in the form of a proprietary AI model that utilizes real-time crop data and autonomous farm machinery to perceive, reason, act, and observe. 

This proprietary AI model can then be broadly licensed to every irrigated and non-irrigated acre of every row crop grown everywhere, resulting in billions of dollars of ARR (annual recurring revenue) for the exclusive licensor of the agriculture industry's foremost agentic “AI agronomist”. In summary, ultra-high-speed CONSTANT MOVE irrigation pivots are a masterstroke in this high-stakes, winner-take-all game to own the future of agriculture with an AI agronomist powered by agronomic superintelligence. 

"Agronomic superintelligence will be the equivalent of employing a full-time PhD-level human agronomist specialized in any row crop produced on any acre under any condition anywhere on the planet. It represents a future where AI (artificial intelligence) becomes a vastly knowledgeable, intelligent, and capable partner in agriculture, having a more comprehensive understanding of agricultural systems than any human and, ultimately, surpassing the combined knowledge and problem-solving abilities of all human agricultural experts. It is envisioned as a central, self-optimizing AI model that uses vast amounts of real-time crop data to manage every aspect of row crop production, enabling highly precise and profitable farming on a massive, global scale." -AI Overview

"The real beneficiaries of AI are going to be those with proprietary data." -Cathie Wood, Chief Executive Officer at Ark Invest

"Mechanized irrigation is no longer simply a market of sprinklers, water, and pipe. It is now a vast, untapped marketplace for technology, power, and data."

                                                                                                                                       BUILDING FOR AN AI-FIRST WORLD