Arboreal robots R&D

This is our research on robots that move through trees. We build and test prototypes for arboreal locomotion: navigating canopies for monitoring and precision agriculture, without heavy machines on the ground.

Gibbon Bot is the first named platform from this work — designed with olives in mind and field-tested in groves, meant as a tree-climbing base for other canopy jobs. Olivabot Vision adds cameras and on-board AI to the same platform.

What we work on

• Canopy locomotion – climbing and moving between branches
• Lightweight mechanics – grip and motion without compacting soil or damaging trees
• Field prototypes – hardware and software tested in real groves
• Monitoring and harvest – a platform for sensors, vision, and later picking