Sowbot – Open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS)

Show HN: Sowbot – Open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS)

Sowbot – Open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS) is a company in show hn launch.

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Sowbot is an open-hardware agricultural robot designed to close the "prototype gap" that kills most agri-robotics startups and research projects — the 18+ months spent on drivers, networking, safety watchdogs, and UI before you can even start on the thing you actually care about.The hardware is built around a stackable 10×10cm compute module with two ARM Cortex-A55 SBCs — one for ROS 2 navigation/EKF localisation, one dedicated to vision/YOLO inference — connected via a single ethernet cable.Centimetre-level positioning via dual RTK GNSS, CAN bus for field comms, and real-time motor control via ESP32 running Lizard firmware.Everything — schematics, PCB layouts, firmware — is under open licen

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Website: sowbot.co.uk