Shaddad is an autonomous agricultural robot made by ROBOTAT, a NASL company. It is one heavy-duty platform built for round-the-clock work, and its job changes with the attachment mounted on it: the Cultivator prepares soil, the Sprayer applies treatments plant by plant, and the Mower keeps vegetation down. The robot doesn’t change, the attachment does, so one platform covers open fields, greenhouses, date palm farms and solar sites.
Why one platform with many attachments?
Most farms don’t need a machine for every task. They need a machine that works every day. When the same base cultivates, sprays and mows, purchase and maintenance costs drop, your team learns one system, and the data the robot collects about every row stays in one place.
Shaddad’s attachments
Cultivator
A precision soil implement that mounts to Shaddad and adapts to soil density in real time for a well-prepared seedbed.
Sprayer
A computer-vision guided sprayer that treats the individual plant rather than the whole row, cutting chemical use by up to 60%. More in precision spraying with computer vision.
Mower
A low-profile cutting tool for orchards and vineyards that snaps onto Shaddad for regular, autonomous maintenance.
What Shaddad monitors while it works
- Crop health: visual and multispectral imaging across every row flags disease, pests and nutrient stress early.
- Soil and irrigation: continuous maps of soil moisture, salinity and topography, so irrigation runs by need rather than by schedule.
- Yield estimation: counting, sizing and ripeness assessment before harvest.
- Greenhouses and livestock: ongoing checks on greenhouse climate and on animals in pasture.
Where it works
Shaddad was built and field-tested where the labour bill is heaviest: date palm farms and greenhouses. It also runs in open fields and on solar farms, where it manages vegetation between panel rows with no herbicide.
How to get started
A ROBOTAT agronomy team visits your farm and defines scouting and treatment routes, with no commitment and no charge for the assessment. The robot then starts its autonomous patrols, and its findings become work orders in your farm management system or ERP. Most deployments are live within 60 days. You can also order the work per hectare without buying a robot; see Robotics-as-a-Service for farms.
Frequently asked questions
Is Shaddad one robot or several?
One platform. What changes is the attachment: the Cultivator, the Sprayer or the Mower.
Does it need an operator all the time?
No. Shaddad drives pre-defined routes autonomously, and operators step in only when needed.
Who makes Shaddad?
ROBOTAT, a company of NASL Technologies in Saudi Arabia.
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