Biodiversity with Automowers with Husqvarna Group

Biodiversity on golf courses is complex and slow-changing, making it difficult for managers to track progress or justify investments to regulators and communities. While our robotic mowers provide unparalleled field presence and precise positioning, their potential as a distributed “biodiversity observatory” remains untapped. We are looking for startups and scale-ups with capabilities in agronomy/ecology, computer vision and sensing, software and data products, and privacy-aware data handling that can pilot concrete use cases such as habitat mapping, invasive species detection, biodiversity scoring in managed landscapes, wildlife-friendly mowing strategies, or (where compliant) acoustic biodiversity monitoring. Solutions should be applicable first to golf courses, but ideally extendable to parks, municipal greenspaces, sports facilities, and large campuses.

By partnering with us, you can apply your technology through a global leader in forest and park products. With partnering we can implement your solution on a mature robotics lawnmover platform with presence and existing clients all around the globe. Through the Combient Foundry venture-client model, selected partners will co-develop and pilot biodiversity applications together with Husqvarna’s robotics and business teams, with access to domain experts, test sites, and potential integration into our product and digital ecosystem. If pilots demonstrate measurable biodiversity and customer value, we see a path towards productisation and scale—ranging from integrated features to joint offerings and long-term commercial relationships where your solution becomes part of how professional users manage and document biodiversity on their sites.