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Tertill
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CommercialUnited StatesFully autonomous

Tertill Corporation (formerly Franklin Robotics) · working robot

Tertill

A small, solar-powered four-wheeled robot that patrols a fenced garden bed and cuts down short weeds with a spinning string trimmer, avoiding taller plants and anything marked with a collar.

Price
$350Cheaper than 85%
Height
12 cmTaller than 4%
Weight
1.1 kgHeavier than 0%
Payload
—Not published
Speed
0.4 km/hFaster than 0%
Battery
—Not published
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Why it matters

A solar-powered garden weeding robot from Roomba co-inventor Joe Jones.

Real-world use

No customers or deployments reported yet.

Timeline

First shown
2019
Released
2019
Sold after a crowdfunding campaign (year)

Maker

Tertill Corporation (formerly Franklin Robotics)Company · North Billerica, Massachusetts, United States

How it stacks up

Against other working & field robots that publish the figure. Pick a measure.

  1. Handle (logistics version)Boston Dynamics · 2019200 cm
  2. AM15AiTEN Robotics · 2020189 cm
  3. BellaBotPudu Robotics · 2019129 cm
  4. KIRA B 50Kärcher · 2018116 cm
  5. temitemi (Robotemi) · 2018100 cm
  6. WhizSoftBank Robotics · 201965 cm
  7. TertillTertill Corporation (formerly Franklin Robotics) · 201912 cm
  8. DingoClearpath Robotics (now part of Rockwell Automation) · 201911 cm

Tertill is taller than 4% of the 72 other working & field robots that publish a height. Bars show the 7 closest in date.

Height 12 cm 8 cm200 cm #70 of 73 · taller than 4%

Not published by the maker: payload, joints, battery.

Public attention

How much public attention Tertill gets, from open data.

  • No Wikipedia article of its own yet
  • No recent press stories listed yet

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What’s inside

The parts the company has talked about publicly.

Movement
Wheeled base
How it runs
Fully autonomous. It roams the garden bed and trims weeds entirely on its own on solar power.
Actuators & motors
Four-wheel drive with steeply cambered wheels, each driven by a brushed DC motor
Hands
Spinning string trimmer on a brushed DC motor cuts small weeds
Sensors & vision
Capacitive sensors tell weeds from tagged plants and obstacles; wheel rotation sensors, accelerometers and gyros
Battery & power
Solar panel on top; weeds in 2-5 minute bursts for 1-2 hours a day
Materials & build
Weatherproof shell with rubber gaskets; 1.1 kg; 21 x 12 x 21 cm

From the maker

Tertill is the only machine from Tertill Corporation (formerly Franklin Robotics) in the atlas.

Watch Tertill

Video: Tertill on YouTube. Plays from youtube-nocookie.com when you press play.

Made, sold and where

Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.

Price
$350About $350
How to get one
No official buying page found
Sold or delivered
Sold to home gardeners after a 2019 crowdfunding launch
Where it is sold or used
North Billerica, Massachusetts, United States

Sources

Figures come from press coverage. Every link below backs something on this page.

TechCrunch The solar-powered Tertill robot keeps weeds in check (Jul 2017) Weed Technology (Cambridge University Press) Functionality and efficacy of Franklin Robotics' Tertill robotic weeder tertill.com Tertill: how it is operated

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