Build a Farmbot to help our farmers!!

19 Sep 2018 POSTED BY Anusha Jha

Can you guess what is the next big thing that can be controlled via Internet?? Yes, it is your Garden. Can you believe its your own garden!! It has become easy because of the robot named as "Farmbot" which is an efficient way of modernizing farming practices. It follows the concept of precision farming and makes it quite affordable. It is a linear robot that reduces the pressure for both small scale or large scale farms. You can even drag and drop crops at the virtual farm which is created in the app. There are inbuilt instructions which tells the bot to do the needful work according to our requirements.

Farmbot is an automated robot with which you can sow seeds, water them as per their requirement, acts as a weed destroyer and helps to monitor the condition of the soil. Different plants can be grown in the garden and the camera used, recognizes each plant distinctly and waters them as per their need. It also sends alert at the correct time of harvest. It doesn't only helps in urban farming but also will be helpful in the off-world farming in future. Recently, it has been working with NASA to develop open food production on the Moon and Mars.

It reminds me of how one of our community member of SP Robotic Works named Krishaant had done a robot named Agribot and you can watch his video here by clicking on this link https://youtu.be/mk5KCz_RVUM .

Source: Futurism