Maintaining Green Space Sustainably: Jack Morrison on the Impact of Scythe Robotics

Hardware to Save a Planet

Welcome to this episode of Hardware to Save a Planet. Joining us today is Jack Morrison, Co-Founder and CEO of Scythe Robotics, a green company on a mission to provide the most advanced and sustainable autonomous technology for maintaining off-road environments. The company’s autonomous all-electrical robots bring sustainability to the lawn mowing and landscaping industry by eliminating the emissions from gas-powered equipment that is commercially used.

Join us as we discuss Jack’s background, Scythe’s mission to improve sustainability in landscaping, and their recent series B funding. Jack explains the environmental benefits of transitioning from gas-powered to electric mowers and the importance of urban green spaces. He highlights Scythe’s innovative mower, the M.52, and its development based on customer feedback.

Jack also discusses the potential of autonomous technology in various industries and expresses optimism about renewable energy’s future. He encourages individuals to contribute to climate change solutions, emphasizing collective efforts toward sustainability.

More About Jack Morrison

Jack Morrison is the Co-founder and CEO of Scythe Robotics. A technical leader with a passion for connecting computers with the physical world, Jack has a track record of leading innovative, collaborative initiatives and organizations. Inspired to develop the future of long-term autonomous robotics, Jack believes that software engineering and novel research can go hand in hand to produce extraordinary advancements.

Jack brings deep experience in computer vision and robotic software to his role as CEO. Jack began his career as a software engineer at the MITRE Corporation, building computer vision systems for UAV imagery before a brief stint as a Robotics PhD at George Washington University, where he researched long-term, collaborative robotic autonomy and perception. Jack left academia to co-found Replica Labs, where he built monocular, dense 3D reconstruction systems from early smartphone video. Replica Labs was later acquired by Occipital.

A graduate of Bowdoin College with a B.A. in computer science, Jack currently lives with his wife on their small farm outside Boulder, CO.

Episode Resource

• Jack Morrison on LinkedIn
• Scythe Robotics Website
• Dylan Garrett on LinkedIn
• Synapse Website
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