Our robot Matilda was picked up from Blenheim a couple of weeks ago. She has been busy scanning vineyards in the Blenheim region as part of the Vineyard project. The scans provide imagery which is turned into 3D reconstructions of the vines. Our project is helping viticulturalists to track their grape yields. Currently this is done manually with a lot of errors.

Matt Mattar and Sam Heslip drove the robot back to Christchurch with a quick stop along the coastline to photograph Matilda which was named after Matt. She is now being reused with a robotic pruning arm. Haven’t decided on a new name for it yet…. MatildArm? 

Our team now has five robots which can scan in parallel at different sites and the project is progressing well.