The company was founded in late 2019 by a diverse team of entrepreneurs with backgrounds in engineering, entrepreneurship and landscaping. We are thrilled to be autonomy partners with Electric Sheep.” “We have an already tight labor market, so I would love the opportunity to refocus my staff on the jobs robots can't do. “My company and industry welcome self-driving mowers,” said Zech Strauser, owner of Strauser Nature’s Helpers in Eastern Pennsylvania. However, it has been largely ignored by technology companies and lacked innovative solutions. Landscaping is a $105B industry, notably the size of the entertainment or petcare industries.
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To answer these problems, Electric Sheep has created the Dexter robot, clamp-on hardware and software that turns commercial lawn mowers into self driving machines. This exacerbates the industry's labor shortages, low growth and shrinking margins. Over 50% of landscape maintenance involves lawn mowing, a tedious and repetitive process made physically grueling by exposure to harsh weather. This has often resulted in businesses that are unable to grow beyond a certain size, even if the demand is present. The company is tackling the industry's single most pressing challenge, a decades-long shortage of reliable labor.
SAN FRANCISCO-( BUSINESS WIRE)- Electric Sheep Robotics announces its official launch as an autonomy partner to the landscaping industry today.