Bloomfield Robotics
About Bloomfield Robotics
Plants need constant attention, which is why growers inspect their crops to ensure predictable, well-timed harvests as well as protect them from pests and disease. The main inspection methods now available to growers, whether for row crops like wheat, corn or rice, or specialty crops, such as grapes, apples and flowers, are drones and human visual inspection. Yet, both have important limitations. Drones cannot see below the canopy, which is problematic for specialty crops, where the fruits, leaves, shoots, etc. must be observed directly. Human inspection,on the other hand, is not scalable, subjective and often unreliable. Bloomfield cost-effectively overcomes the limitations of both methods and provides direct line-of-site pixel-level inspection using RGB imaging and AI to automatically assess the health and performance of each and every plant in a grow, regardless of plant type, location or number. The result is more predictable and higher yields.Specialty crop growers across North and South America as well as theEU use Bloomfield’s Flash (licensed from and developed by Carnegie Mellon University) cameras which are easily mounted on any type of vehicle available to that grower to inspect any type of crop as often and as much as they need. The result is early and precise yield prediction, well-timed harvests and early detection of and protection from infestation and disease. In a sense, every single plant is monitored from seed through harvest, creating an unprecedented level of transparency in the life of every grower’s plants.