Brighton Risch
Co-founder & CEO
Won 1st and 3rd place Control Awards at the FTC World Championship for developing a highly efficient computer vision model and navigation software.
Brighton on LinkedIn
Robots for
poultry farms.
We’re building robots to handle mortality pickup and flock monitoring, helping farmers spend less time on daily barn work.
What we’re buildingBacked by
Pareto HoldingsBroiler growersRoaring Creek Egg FarmsWHAT WE DO
Mortality pickup and
flock monitoring.
Today, a worker walks through the poultry house, finds dead birds, picks them up, checks where birds are crowding, and looks for problems. This can mean up to eight hours a day in the barn.
Clutch Robotics is building a robot to do this job better and cheaper than a human. We’re currently finishing our prototypes and preparing to deploy them.
Mortality pickup
Find and collect dead birds on the barn floor.
Flock monitoring
Check where birds are crowding and look for problems.
Less manual work
Automate the repetitive tasks that fill a farmer’s day.
OUR LONG-TERM VISION
From mortality pickup
to farm automation.
We think the way to build the next poultry company is to start with the machine that actually does the work, then integrate the rest of the farm around it.
Once we deploy the robots, we plan to expand into feed, water, lighting, ventilation, monitoring, and eventually all aspects of the farm.
OUR TEAM
Meet the founders.
We’re two Yale brothers currently on leave, with 11 years of experience building robots together through FIRST Tech Challenge.
About the founders
Cooper Risch
Co-founder & CTO
FTC World Champion, 1st place Inspire Award, for designing a topology-optimized, 3D-printed robot body. Earned the 2nd place Innovate Award for a multidirectional swerve drivetrain.
Cooper on LinkedIn