Patents Assigned to PASTORAL ROBOTICS LIMITED
  • APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR EXCRETA DETECTION AND TREATMENT
    Publication number: 20160286713
    Abstract: This invention relates to an apparatus for travelling over a ground surface, the apparatus including detection means for detecting an area of the ground surface (or sub-ground surface) which has had a deposition of excreta, and treatment means for treating the area with at least one substance. The apparatus may preferably be automated. In a preferred embodiment, the excreta being detected may be cattle urine and the substance(s) used to treat the area of deposition of urine may be a nitrate inhibitor and/or a urease inhibitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: PASTORAL ROBOTICS LIMITED
    Inventors: Geoffrey James BATES, Bertram Francis Charles QUIN, George Terry PALMER, Raymond Andrew SIMPKIN