Fotenix helps farmers grow sustainably and profitably with the power of AI. Its plug-and-play smart cameras help growers with quality control, targeting input use, and early detection of pests and disease.
Within SLIMERS Fotenix is working to identify slugs and create smart maps to guide targeted use of new, more sustainable pesticides.
CEO Charles Veys explains: “Our role is to build AI-powered slug detection, right there in the field. But first, we’ve got to train the AI, and that means putting slugs in the crosshairs.”
In early 2025 the team at UK Agri-Tech Centre scanned slugs across the Slug Sleuths’ farms, helping pinpoint the exact spectral signature of the
unwelcome visitors.
“This labelling approach is helping us to build libraries of key pests to allow development of software pipelines that can spot slugs earlier, and more accurately than a human or drone scout – a hot topic in pest management across crops.”
The next step is to scale the tech from trials to commercial scale, and integration with Farmscan Ag’s automated sprayer to move one step closer to viable per-slug detection and treatment.
The result in sight is smarter slug control, reduced chemical use, and stronger crops