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I'm interested in using Technology in Agriculture. Anyone have any interesting links? This is what I'm working on: http://www.kokonaut.com http://www.kokonaut.

• Animats 9y ago
  Abundant Robotics. SRI spinoff. They have an apple-picking robot. It's too slow, too fragile, and uses too much duct tape.[1] They need someone to re-engineer the mechanical parts. Agrobot. Strawberry harvester. Nice vision system, too slow and too fragile.[2] DeepField Robotics. Bosch automatic weeding robot.[3] Well-built, but too expensive. Mechanical engineering for dirty environments is hard. But there's a lot of good machinery working in dirty environments and getting the job done. Computer vision, at last, works, which makes intelligent agricultural implements possible. But the computer vision component isn't a big part of the system; it's basically a smartphone-sized piece of electronics. Most of the problems come from the moving parts. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS0coCmXiYU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS0coCmXiYU [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKT351pQHfI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKT351pQHfI [3] https://www.deepfield-robotics.com/index-en.html https://www.deepfield-robotics.com/index-en.html
• chicob 9y ago
  That looks cool. What part of that project are you responsible for?
  • antoniuschan99 9y ago
    It's currently the Industrial Designer and I.