EarthSense One of 8 Ag Tech Start-ups Worth Watching in 2019

EarthSense, a company that develops ultra-compact autonomous robots for crop breeders, agronomists, and growers, has been featured in Successful Farming’s 8 Ag Tech start-ups worth watching in 2019.

The company was founded by University of Illinois entrepreneurs, Chinmay Soman and Girish Chowdhary.

Their headlining agricultural robot, TerraSentia, provides field phenotyping from the ground level up. The creation of TerraSentia was inspired by the recognition of the fact that most of the important events on a field start under the canopy.

The start-up sold out of its 2018 Early Adopter Program, where they sold 25 robots.

In the feature, Soman talks about the three key problems that EarthSense aims to tackle, which include promoting the creation of the more sustainable next generation crop varieties and resolving issues posed by herbicide-resistant weeds with the use of robots performing mechanical weeding.

Read more on the feature here.