News & novelties 08/30/2022

Newsletter Ecorobotix – August 2022

🎯 🌿 ARA involved in French research project Herbicible and a new CEO for Ecorobotix

Newsletter Ecorobotix – August 2022

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ARA involved in Project Herbicible

French association ECO-PHYT' is testing our ARA robot for its study project on targeted spraying. They released an explanatory video (in French).

→ Read about the project and view the video

Meet our new CEO: Simon Aspinall

We’ve hired Silicon-valley executive Simon Aspinall as our new CEO to drive global growth. Simon is a highly experienced international start-up executive with over two decades of experience in large corporates (Cisco, EMC, Dell) and Silicon Valley startups. He was an executive at Virtustream, an enterprise cloud company, as it grew from a startup to a multimillion-dollar business and was then acquired by Dell/EMC for $1.2 billion.

As part of the 2022 expansion strategy Ecorobotix has added distributors in Germany, France, Italy, Netherland, Belgium and Czech Republic and plans further growth across Europe and North & South America in 2023.

“I’m thrilled to lead Ecorobotix as it expands globally and develops its data and carbon business.” says Simon.

→ Read the press release

Upcoming fair trades and events

Agravis: Potato Europe (Germany)
We bring robots on the fields
🇩🇪 
Springe – 7-8 September, 2022 | Booth F17

World Agri Tech-Summit (England)
Strategic Insights, Tech and Investment in Sustainable Agri-Food
🇬🇧 London – 20-21 September, 2022

FIRA US (USA)
The AG Autonomous Solutions Event for California and North America Producers
🇺🇸 Fresno (California) – 18-20 October, 2022

SIMA (France)
International Exhibition of Solutions And Technologies for Efficient and Sustainable Agriculture
🇫🇷 Paris Nord / Villepinte – 6-10 November, 2022 | Booth 6B 058

View all upcoming fair trades and events

Latest form the media

In the past few weeks, Ecorobotix was featured in a number of media stories. Read about them on our website.

Read the latest media stories

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