Cambridge Consultants

Cambridge Consultants creates and delivers breakthrough products and services for clients worldwide – from established multinational companies to innovative start-ups. We help bridge the gap between early stage technologies from academia/start-ups and end users looking for solutions that cannot be found from existing suppliers. Headquartered in Cambridge, UK, we use the skills and experience of our 800 engineers, scientists, mathematicians and designers to de-risk and build novel robotics and AI driven systems and manage the transfer of the solutions through to mass market production.

Mamut: The autonomous robot in the field of agritech from Cambridge Consultants on Vimeo.

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Technology

Farming gets smarter with ‘AI at the edge’

Artificial Intelligence is breaking free of the Cloud and high-powered platforms, and is moving into the field. ‘AI at the edge’ uses low-cost, low-power devices to perform complex AI tasks without needing to send data to the cloud. We’ve demonstrated this through Fafaza, a precision crop spraying technology that performs plant recognition and individual treatment in real time.

Video - Hank: the dexterous robot

Hank is a pneumatic robotic gripper with a sophisticated sense of touch and slip. It can emulate the human ability to grip delicate objects using just the right amount of pressure. Bruce Ackman talks about Hank's potential in logistics.

The future of vertical farming: the intelligent ecosystem

In a new whitepaper, Roger Mainwaring-Burton of Cambridge Consultants explores real time crop sensing, air management and crop manipulation, showing how the use of off-the-shelf systems designed for other purposes don’t always provide a long-term solution for vertical farming.

Video: Precision fruit handling robot

Robotics in agriculture face complex challenges when it comes to dealing with speciality produce such as fruits and vegetables. Niall Mottram demonstrates an actuator that senses the pressure being applied to grip a fruit and also detects when it's slipping. This allows the actuator to replicate the human ability of gripping a fruit with just enough pressure to pick it but not squash it.

Blog: Low cost nano-climate control for vertical farming

Vertical farming pushes the boundaries of a microclimate. The very best facilities can regulate lighting, humidity, temperature and nutrient levels to maximise the growth of thousands of plants simultaneously so that the yield is maximised and cost is reduced.

Mamut: The autonomous robot in the field of agritech

Breakthrough innovation specialist Cambridge Consultants today announced Mamut, an autonomous robot that explores crop fields, capturing data on health and yield at the level of individual plants and on a massive scale.