FLEXBOT - Building a [Fl]exible, [Ex]tensible Co[bo]t Pla[t]form for Farmers

**FLEXBOT** 项目旨在通过将协作物流机器人（cobots）集成到农场中来提高英国软水果种植操作的劳动生产率。主要合作伙伴 **Fox Robotics** 将开发并展示三个主要成果：展示供应商之间供应链互操作性的可行性，为中小型水果和作物种植者探索可持续的商业模式，该项目旨在展示英国水果农场的可扩展生产力和盈利能力，同时鼓励一个小型的附加供应商生态系统，并展示cobot集成到其他农场类型的潜力。该项目是一个多学科合作的研究与开发项目，旨在帮助英国水果农场实现可扩展的生产力和盈利能力。D活动，旨在与Defra的建议保持一致，并修复技术提供商和最终用户之间的严重碎片化。Fox Robotics将与 **Agri-EPI中心 **，** 三个英国水果农场 **，萨里大学University of Surrey在这个项目上，聘请四个小型创新企业，通过提供互补技术，产品，FLEXBOT项目旨在利用移动的cobot平台，将分散和孤立的农业技术行业推向标准化。

The **FLEXBOT** project aims to improve labour productivity in English soft fruit farming operations by integrating collaborative logistics robots (cobots) into the farms.Lead partner **Fox Robotics** will develop and showcase three primary outcomes: demonstrating the feasibility of supply chain interoperability between suppliers, exploring a sustainable business model for small to medium-sized fruit and crop farmers, and establishing an autonomous fruit-farming cobot undertaking various logistics tasks.The project aims to illustrate English fruit farms' scalable productivity and profitability while encouraging a small ecosystem of add-on suppliers and demonstrating the potential for cobot integration into other farm types.The project is a multidisciplinary collaborative R&D activity that aims to align with Defra recommendations and remediate significant fragmentation between technology providers and end-users.Fox Robotics will work with **Agri-EPI Centre**, **three British fruit farms**, and the **University of Surrey** on this project and hire four small innovative businesses to improve their value proposition to farmers by providing complementary technology, products, and services that can be integrated into the cobot platform and scaled as farmers invest in their fleet.The FLEXBOT project aims to move the fragmented and siloed Agri-tech industry towards standardisation using mobile cobot platforms.