We are thrilled to be autonomy partners with Electric Sheep.” “We have an already tight labor market, so I would love the opportunity to refocus my staff on the jobs robots can’t do. “My company and industry welcome self-driving mowers,” said Zech Strauser, owner of Strauser Nature’s Helpers in Eastern Pennsylvania. There are hundreds of thousands of commercial mowers being used today, and the Electric Sheep Robot is able to deploy on this already existing and well established platform. The Electric Sheep Robot works with commercially available gas and electric mowers, and is available with no upfront costs through a Robots-as-a-Service model. The company was founded in late 2019 by a diverse team of entrepreneurs with backgrounds in engineering, entrepreneurship and landscaping. However, it has been largely ignored by technology companies and lacked innovative solutions. Landscaping is a $105B industry, notably the size of the entertainment or petcare industries. This has often resulted in businesses that are unable to grow beyond a certain size, even if the demand is present. The company claims to be tackling the industry’s single most pressing challenge, a decades-long shortage of reliable labor. To answer these problems, Electric Sheep has created the Dexter robot, clamp-on hardware and software that turns commercial lawn mowers into self driving machines. This exacerbates the industry’s labor shortages, low growth and shrinking margins. Over 50% of landscape maintenance involves lawn mowing, a tedious and repetitive process made physically grueling by exposure to harsh weather. Electric Sheep Robotics has developed a robot te operate lawnmowers autonomously.
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