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Farmers in the UK have got

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a lot of challenges.

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But possibly one of the biggest ones is availability of labour,

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skilled labour.

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UK growers are facing rising costs, shrinking

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labour availability and increasing

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pressure to produce more, with less.

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Just transporting the fruit from the pickers

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to the lorry, the quality control, the pack house.

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About 20% of the labour time is spent doing that,

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and it is a unskilled, thankless task.

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Which we thought that,

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an autonomous robot would be well-suited to do.

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WMG have been supporting Dynium with their autonomy stack,

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and ensuring that is robust and reliable enough to operate.

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You would have thought that would be really simple.

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Unfortunately, we have a metal structure over us.

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That makes it a lot more difficult.

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The metal frameworks reflect the signals.

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So you don’t just get a

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diminished signal, you actually get the incorrect signal.

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diminished signal, you actually get the incorrect signal.

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Autonomy within

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agriculture is really challenging

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because every single site is different,

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the weather, the terrain, it's different every single time.

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Having ourselves,

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WMG and Rectory Farm has been so instrumental.

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And I honestly don't think we could have done.

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I've got to where we are without WMG.

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There's been a huge advantage in being able to leverage

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the expertise

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that WMG has in working in this sort of environment,

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We've just been able to hit the ground

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running in developing the autonomous system.

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We've had weekly touchpoint meetings

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while also working really closely with them and the growers

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to make sure that the solutions

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solve the real world challenges.

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We started the development

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in our simulation environment,

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before then moving into real world grower environment.

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Autonomous navigation,

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this is not a technology that

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the farmers actually care about.

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They actually want improved efficiency.

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WMG has really helped us,

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from being a machine,

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which couldn't drive autonomously

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but which couldn't drive autonomously,

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to being able to drive autonomously.

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We've managed to decrease the cost of the sensor

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payload on the vehicle,

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making this a more commercially viable solution.

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The future is looking good both for Dynium and for farmers.

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Farmers can look forward to improved productivity,

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easing the pain with their staffing.

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We're able to transfer knowledge from sectors like automotive

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and aerospace

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into agritech to accelerate their journeys

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into commercialisation.

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So the future is looking good,

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we have a product

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which is actually useful to farmers.

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It gives good return on investment for them,

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helps their productivity, profitability.

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And we are incredibly excited to move this forward.

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WMG also are, and they've been absolutely instrumental in this for us.