About US

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ACCELERATING THE WORLD'S TRANSITION TO SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE

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

"The irrigation pivot field is an automated crop factory embedded with agriculture’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."

Fieldbot is an agriculture robotics company that provides 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 AI-powered self-learning machine intelligence.

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

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

These smartly repurposed high-speed "constant move" irrigation pivots, 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 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.”

An astonishing one-half of the total irrigated crop acres in the U.S. are under irrigation pivots, the leading form of all agricultural irrigation methods, including flood irrigation.

The total addressable market for Fieldbot PRECISION UPGRADES is estimated at over 20 billion dollars in just modernizing the more than 570,000 slow, unreliable, imprecise, electromechanically driven “start-stop move” irrigation pivots watering over 100 row crop varieties in 100 countries worldwide.

ADDING MORE CAPABILITY AND PRECISION AT SCALE

Today, there exists a unique opportunity to advance worldwide production agriculture toward more sustainable, 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 converting irrigation pivots to high-speed constant move include:

• Added high-speed chemigation*
• Added high-speed multipass irrigation*
• Added high-speed canopy cooling passes*
• Added high-speed seed germination passes*
• Added high-speed crop data harvesting passes*
• 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 MOCB (motor optimization controller board), notably referred to as Fieldbot Inside™, is at the core of all Fieldbot PRECISION UPGRADES.

This next-generation Intelligent Tower™ networked digital technology platform utilizes advanced hardware and proprietary software to maintain synchronous system alignment at the full range of low to high irrigation pivot speeds via patented variable-speed motor control performance optimization.

The custom and exclusive 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 MOCB networked architecture enables continuous remote monitoring of electric motor data utilizing Starlink high-speed internet connectivity, all while maintaining critical machine functions with over-the-air programming and onboard GPS for position-based predictive analytics (U.S. Patent 10,384,557) at each wheel tower of every irrigation pivot 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 successfully implemented a highly profitable “constant move” power electronics MOC (motor optimization controller) powered by an intelligent networked digital technology platform. Combining the new MOC with a high-speed electric motor results in the mechanized irrigation industry’s first fully integrated Irrigation Powertrain Systems™. 

"Today's conventional seven-tower irrigation pivot is driven by seven independent electric powertrain products. Tomorrow's next-generation irrigation pivot, of any size, will be universally driven by a single electronic powertrain system."

PACKAGING EVERYTHING NEEDED INTO A SINGLE SKU

"An irrigation pivot is just 'pipe on wheels' until you give it an engine. Fieldbot is the future high-performance 'smart engine' of every new and existing irrigation pivot everywhere."

The MOC (motor optimization controller) with high-speed electric motor equipment package is a single SKU for any brand irrigation pivot and is 100% compatible with all irrigation pivot OEM main panel and tower box controls.

This unique one-of-a-kind feature of the new 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 MOC utilizes all existing irrigation pivot span cables, power wires, control wires, and safety circuits.

REPURPOSING ANY IRRIGATION PIVOT ANYWHERE

Fieldbot PRECISION UPGRADES are low-cost, simple-to-use, easy-to-maintain, and non-invasively interface with all brands of mechanical and computerized main panels and remote telemetry systems. And now with only two components to install onto the base beam of each wheel tower, installation time is only a short "one-hour per tower". Best of all, all legacy controls remain fully intact and no unused components ever need to leave 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. Pedestrian Warning System (PWS) for high-speed operation
2. Manual disconnect switch for emergency system shutdown

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

BUILDING A PROPRIETARY DATA CHANNEL FROM A FLEET OF CROP DATA HARVESTERS

As part of the end tower MOC and located up on top of the span pipe directly above the crop, the RDM (remote data module), aka Rdat™, enables over-the-air programming and remote supervisory control of every MOCB on the network. Moreover, Rdat continually uploads to the cloud, via an on-pivot Starlink dish, both precision machine data and high-quality crop data, captured in real time with high-resolution cameras and multispectral sensors, in a unique "crop data ring" layer.

In addition to machine health and also included with all Fieldbot PRECISION UPGRADES, Rdat acts 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, etc.

Along with continuous 24/7 harvesting of thousands of leaf-level images captured at every stage of crop growth, future Vision Intelligence™, powered by CVML (computer vision machine learning), will be incorporated into the tech stack to enable embodied Physical AI standard with all Fieldbot PRECISION UPGRADES.

Deep neural networks trained on the proprietary high-quality crop data, harvested from every variety of field crop and aggregated from thousands of autonomous irrigation pivot machines, self-optimized with digital feedback loops precisely actuating insights and accurately measuring results in real time, will ultimately power a singular ”agronomic superintelligence” that can be readily licensed to every irrigated and non-irrigated acre of every row crop grown everywhere on the planet.

"Agronomic superintelligence is the equivalent of having a PhD-level human agronomist specialized in any row crop produced on any acre anywhere on the planet."

"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."