A UK research and software company. Our first product, RoboSchool, teaches anyone to build, program and command a humanoid robot — hands-on, in the browser.
A UK research and software company. Our first product, RoboSchool, teaches anyone to build, program and command a humanoid robot — hands-on, in the browser.
We apply AI and engineering to make hard, future-proof skills accessible to anyone.
Assemble a virtual robot step by step, command it in plain language, and watch the real Python code write itself as it moves.
We build our own AI-driven software and research tools — from the learning engine to data and quantitative systems.
Grounded in real open-source robotics (InMoov), so the skills learned map directly to physical machines.
Hydroponic systems that grow lettuce, herbs, onions and carrots on a fraction of the water a field needs. Three prototypes are designed and documented: a layered farming module, a sealed cabinet running on piped sunlight, and a wearable pack where plants regenerate breathable air.
A free-to-start, browser-based platform that teaches anyone to assemble, program and operate a humanoid robot — hands-on, at near-zero cost. It removes the two biggest barriers: cost and hardware access. A working prototype exists today.
▶ Try the live demoA horizontal-layer research module for fast leafy greens, herbs, green onions and carrots.
This horizontal-layer hydroponic research module is designed for controlled-environment production of fast-growing leafy greens, culinary herbs, green onions, and carrots. The system combines NFT channels for lettuce, basil, and green onions with dedicated deep-media grow pots for carrots, providing the root depth required for proper carrot development.
Nutrient solution is recirculated from a central reservoir through filtration and separate distribution circuits, with dedicated drip irrigation for the carrot modules. Integrated LED lighting, environmental sensors, ventilation, pH/EC monitoring, and a programmable control system provide controlled growing conditions. The modular structure is designed for efficient water use, high planting density, easy maintenance, and repeatable research trials.
A sealed research cabinet that pipes real sunlight to a single grafted plant — tomatoes above, potatoes below.
This module descends from a different idea than the farming module above. Its ancestor is the hydroponic “tomato tree” shown at Expo ’85 in Tsukuba, Japan. Using the Hyponica method developed by the agronomist Shigeo Nozawa, a single tomato seed — grown with no soil, on nothing but air and water — became a plant several metres wide that yielded more than 13,000 tomatoes over the six-month fair.
Our prototype takes that idea a step further. It grows a single grafted tomato–potato (“pomato”) plant in a fully sealed, instrumented 1.2 × 1.2 × 2.1 m cabinet (6061-T6 aluminium, polycarbonate panels, ~75 kg, ~120 W): tomatoes ripen above the graft union while potato tubers form below it, in a deep, aerated root/tuber chamber fed from a 40 L nutrient reservoir (pH 5.8–6.3, EC 2.0–2.5 mS/cm).
Its defining feature is light drawn from the sun itself. A roof-mounted two-axis solar tracker and a 700 × 700 mm “Himawari” collector with six Fresnel lenses gather daylight, piped indoors through six quartz optical-fibre bundles to a Ø100 mm diffuser above the canopy — so the plant grows on natural daylight, not lamps (600–1200 µmol/m²/s at the canopy). A daily UV-C sterilisation cycle keeps both the circulating nutrient solution and the air path free of pathogens, while a pump, 100 µm filter, aerator and a sensor panel (pH, EC, temperature, dissolved oxygen) close the loop. The system is built to study plant performance, resource efficiency and scalability.
A portable, plant-based atmospheric-regeneration concept for closed and extreme environments.
BIOPACK is an original DROM RESEARCH LTD concept that explores how living plants and controlled-environment technology could contribute to atmospheric regeneration in a portable, closed system. Built into a wearable backpack, it integrates a transparent plant-growth chamber, hydroponic nutrient circulation, controlled illumination, air filtration, and real-time monitoring of O₂, CO₂, temperature and humidity.
The biological chamber holds high-leaf-area plants such as lettuce and basil, which absorb CO₂ and release oxygen through photosynthesis when adequately lit. Unlike a conventional oxygen cylinder, BIOPACK investigates a biological regeneration approach in which the plants become part of a continuously monitored air-management loop — backed by HEPA and activated-carbon filtration, a CO₂ scrubber, an oxygen buffer, and an emergency O₂ cartridge for safety.
The concept targets research into closed habitats, extreme environments, field laboratories and space-related life-support — including future lunar or planetary exploration. It draws on the broader field of hydroponics and regenerative life-support research, but its backpack architecture and integrated biological chamber were developed as an original DROM RESEARCH LTD concept.
BIOPACK is a research and demonstration prototype — not a certified medical or human life-support device. Its purpose is to study how biological systems could complement conventional atmospheric-control technologies in future closed environments.
We build things that teach people to cope — anywhere, under any conditions.
DROM RESEARCH LTD is an early-stage research and technology company registered in England & Wales, founded by a civil engineer who reskilled into software and AI. We design, build and test working prototypes in fields that normally stay locked behind expensive laboratories — and then we hand the knowledge to people who could never afford the door fee.
We teach machines. RoboSchool lets anyone assemble, program and command a humanoid robot in a browser, at near-zero cost — removing the two barriers that stop most people: money and hardware.
We grow food. Our hydroponic modules produce lettuce, herbs, onions and carrots in a controlled loop that uses a fraction of the water of a field. Our Pomato cabinet runs a single grafted plant on piped sunlight — tomatoes above, potatoes below. Our BIOPACK prototype goes further still: living plants regenerating breathable air inside a sealed, wearable system.
More fields and more methods are coming — drones, portable electronics, and applied research tools. The domains change; the objective does not. We are equipping a new kind of person: one who can build, grow, repair and survive — in a city, on a field, in a closed habitat, or somewhere no one has lived yet.
Use what you have. Find a way.
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bogdan@dromresearch.com