Lorenzo Conti

Founder & Managing Director of Crover Ltd

Dr. Lorenzo Conti is the Founder & Managing Director of Crover Ltd, a Scotland-based startup that developed the world’s first ‘subterranean drone’ (i.e. a CROVER).

Lorenzo is an Enterprise Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and holds a PhD in Engineering from The University of Edinburgh, where he worked on granular rheology (the study of how granular matter flows) and discovered the ‘CROVER effect’.

Crover’s proprietary technology for locomotion in granular media enabled the development of the world's first device able to ‘swim’ through bulk solids and powders (e.g. in sand dunes, grain bulks, chemical powders) - named the CROVER robot.

While applications of the CROVER range from soil sampling on Mars to the recovery of buried objects, Crover's first product is a system for the management of cereal grains stored in bulk (e.g. malting barley in sheds and silos). This helps grain storage operators identify critical conditions early and maintain the quality of their stock. #SavingGrainsering from Imperial College, London.