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In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Gabe Sibley, CEO & Founder of Verdant Robotics, an autonomous agriculture company that's raised $48 Million in funding.
Topics Discussed:
— Gabe’s background in autonomous robotics, including other companies that he founded & worked in
— The potential & pitfalls of self-driving cars
— Inspirational people & books for Gabe
— How Verdant harnesses computer vision & machine learning to create robots that help growers do more with less
— The importance of dialogue with the customer, & an erroneous stereotype about farmers
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Verdant Robotics is offering a smart sprayer that helps farmers reduce labor & input costs. But don’t let the word “robotics” in the name fool you: their technology, although very cutting-edge, hooks right onto existing equipment like any other farm implement.
“Here at Verdant we have a slogan called 'autonomy last.' So even though our co-founders & early employees all were foundational in the birth of that (autonomous vehicle) industry, it's the last thing that we're going to do. The majority of the value that we're going to provide the grower is automating the machine on the back. That's actually where the value is being provided.” — Curtis Garner
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Founders Gabe Sibley and Curtis Garner are the CEO & COO, respectively, of Verdant Robotics. After coming on the show last year, Gabe and Curtis join this week to give an update on Verdant, including raising their Series A, progress on commercialization, & dealing with a changing economic landscape.
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Gabe Sibley & Curtis Garner are the co-founders of Verdant Robotics. Verdant has raised $21.5 million to develop the industry’s first multi-action, autonomous farm-robot capable of millimeter-accurate spraying, laser weeding, & AI-based digital crop modeling. Together with farming partners, Verdant uses these tools to deliver better outcomes: larger produce, greater yields & significant savings.
Gabe, CEO, & Curtis, COO, join us to share more about what they have been working on behind the scenes for the past few years, including releasing their offering as a service to farmers. We get into current crisis in Ukraine & the trends happening within agriculture. Tune in!
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Verdant Robotics Co-Founders CEO Gabe Sibley & CCO Curtis Garner join Voices of the Valley to discuss the power that digitized precision farming gives to the industry. Verdant Robotics wasn't "a solution looking for a problem," Gabe says; instead, the multi-action robot that provides both data analytics and crop applications is the result of a six-month road trip that was spent talking to farmers and refining the technology that is now used on everything from carrots to onions to garlic. "It's MBA business school 101," he says in this first part of a two-part episode. "Do what the client or the customer wants."
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Verdant Robotics Co-Founders CEO Gabe Sibley & CCO Curtis Garner return to Voices of the Valley to continue their discussion on how they make sure their company focuses on creating agricultural solutions - instead of just showing off shiny robots. The duo envision a future where farmers and technologists work in tandem to turn fieldworkers into data workers, bridging the perpetual gap in the labor force by mechanization and teaching valuable skillsets to current employees. "The jobs that are on the farm are going to change," Curtis says. "There's going to be new jobs created to create new value on the farm."
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What if you could oversee & make adjustments — brushing every bug away or providing nutrients at the exact moment they are needed — at every stage of growth for a single fruit or vegetable? It may sound like a pipe dream — but robotics and ai are making it a reality. the founders of Verdant Robotics, join the show to share how robotics as a platform is revolutionizing agriculture. Join us as we discuss:
— Why solving agricultural challenges appeals to technologists
— The unprecedented control robotics and automation give agronomists
— Why robotics is the best tool for sustainable, organic agriculture
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#TechTuesday with News from Verdant Robotics
Verdant Robotics has released big news and we've got the inside scoop! Find out more about this company at their website verdantrobotics.com!
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