Sowbot

Category

Other

Launched

February 23, 2026

Stage

Unknown

Pricing

paid

Founder

Sabrees

Website

sowbot.co.uk

Sowbot is an open hardware agricultural robot platform designed to bridge the "prototype gap" in agricultural robotics. It provides a Reference Hardware Design and a Production Ready Software Stack built on ROS2 and RTK GPS. The robot's "brain" is a fully open hardware compute unit built around a stackable 10 cm × 10 cm module standard with two Avaota A1 Single Board Computers (SBC) connected via a single ethernet cable. Board A handles control and safety (ROS 2 navigation stack, topological mapping, EKF localization, real time path planning, emergency stop), while Board B handles perception and AI (camera drivers, image pre processing, neural network inference like YOLO). The system includes dual GNSS RTK receivers for centimetre scale positioning, native CAN bus support, and is housed in a rugged, waterproof aluminium enclosure with M12 connectors. The robot body integrates high performance motors, precise control, long lasting sodium ion batteries (suitable for low temperature charging), and rugged suspension into a fully modular, open hardware chassis. Sowbot also offers two development platforms: Sowbot Mini (1/3 scale) and Sowbot Pico (smaller, lower cost) for testing and validation.