Franky, Agtom's rover prototype, over a strawberry bed during a daytime survey pass.
FRANKY · THE ROVER
BEAT 02

Learning to walk the rows.

A rover built to carry the cameras down every row, so one grower’s reach covers the whole block — scouting first; keeping watch, treating and spraying as it learns.

LEARNING — PROTOTYPE, BUILDING IN PUBLIC

Green is running on the block today. Amber is what we’re building — in public.

Book a pilot blockHow a pilot works
What it is

Franky carries the senses; Mickey does the reading. A rover prototype built in-house, learning one loop: survey by day, treat by night, decide in between. Built in commercial fields, with the people who run them.

The full-size Franky rig — aluminium gantry, drive wheels and payload deck.
What Franky is learningFIVE USE CASES · ONE ASSEMBLY, OPENED
  1. 01 · Scouting

    Survey by day.

    The cameras ride the rows: plant-by-plant imaging passes; anything off is logged as a point of interest for a person to check. NDVI runs live at thirty frames a second.

    LEARNING
    The twin-camera gimbal and sensor pucks on top of the Nano shell.
    THE TWIN-CAMERA GIMBAL
  2. 02 · Farm security

    Learning to keep watch.

    Presence on the block between passes. The same cameras that read the rows, learning to flag what doesn’t belong — logged with a timestamp, checked by a person.

    AHEAD
    Nano Franky, side view — sensor pod and antenna standing off the shell line.
    SENSOR POD AND ANTENNA
  3. 03 · Spot treatment

    Treat by night — the roadmap.

    The night shift is the point: returning to the day’s flags with interchangeable modules. Design intent, shipped at the grower’s pace.

    AHEAD
    Nano Franky, three-quarter view — gimbal, sensor pod and antenna above the wheel arches.
    THE NANO BUILD, QUARTER VIEW
  4. 04 · Spraying

    Payload follows the flags.

    Not the whole block — the rows the day shift flagged, row by row. Nothing reaches the crop without a person signing the plan.

    AHEAD
    Mini Franky with the white spray tank test-fitted on top.
    MINI FRANKY WITH THE SPRAY TANK
  5. 05 · Pest detection & deterrence

    Find it small, answer it small.

    Pest trouble found while it’s still small — and answered at the same size. Detection and deterrence, learning together; a person decides what happens next.

    AHEAD
    Mini Franky from a high angle — the payload deck between the four wheels.
    THE PAYLOAD DECK
Three sizes, one family

Franky

THE WATCHTOWER

Tall mast, full imaging.

LEARNINGALL PROTOTYPES
What changes for the growerON FOOT → WITH A ROVER LEARNING THE ROWS

The daily walk, without the walking: every row visited, every plant looked at, and a person deciding what it means.

Detection
ON FOOT

Trouble waits for someone to walk that row.

WITH A ROVER LEARNING THE ROWS

Learning to walk every row, so the small thing gets found small.

Water & feed
ON FOOT

Uniformity gets checked at the head and the tail, if at all.

WITH A ROVER LEARNING THE ROWS

Learning to check every line it passes, every pass.

Proof of work
ON FOOT

Fine, as far as anyone walked.

WITH A ROVER LEARNING THE ROWS

Learning to keep a dated frame of every row — so “fine” has a picture.

Capacity
ON FOOT

One person can’t be in every row.

WITH A ROVER LEARNING THE ROWS

The walk is what it’s learning. The call stays yours.

What it does
01 ·

Why a ground rover.

The wind that grounds aerial tools is the wind Franky ignores. The machine loop never touches the crop — nothing reaches the field without a person.

02 ·

What it carries.

The senses: cameras and probes from Agtom's sensing stack.

The numbersPROVENANCE UNDER EACH FIGURE
NDVI · LIVE · 30 FRAMES/SECOND 3 SIZES, ONE FAMILY NANO ASSEMBLY · 25 CAD PARTS
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The next rows it learns could be yours.

Book a pilot blockHow a pilot worksA test run on your block →Next: Sensing →

Franky is a prototype. If you’d like it to try a few rows on your block, say so — at your pace, with a person on hand.