Bird Control Robots

We are still working on commercializing the patented technology we licensed from LSU AgCenter a few years ago. In fact, a good amount of progress has been made in the programming portion of the program over the last few weeks. We hope to have a system, which will be tethered, not autonomous, out for some tests runs in the next few weeks.

From there we will see what interest develops and proceed to work on the fully autonomous and/or remote controlled versions. We already have computer hardware and software lined up for autonomous navigation, which will be Arduino based. We have a hardware (motors, remote controller) platform on the drawing board.

I ran across a interesting article covering the South Korean bird scaring robot that has been in development by their military.

Scarebot

There has been some interest lately in the Scarebot project, which we licensed from the LSU AgCenter a while back.  We have a company that is interested in developing a project dealing with bird control.  While I can't get into details, because of a non-disclosure agreement between the involved parties, it looks to be promising project.  The photo on the right is of one of the original scarebots that was built by researchers at the LSU Agricultural Engineering Department.  While the robotic boat that we will be developing in the coming months for this project will look exactly like this one, the basic functioning will be similar.  Stay tuned over the coming weeks and months for more developments.