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Robotic Milkers and an Automated Greenhouse: Inside a High-Tech Small Farm
- jelliclesfarm 8y agoExcellent! Exciting times ahead. This is similar to what I envision with Jellicles small acreage farm bots without the animals(I have no experience with that). My design is for 5 acres, serving 100-150 people and one working person and a suite of small light weight bots and one heavy duty farm bot. Can be fully automated. Combination of hydroponics and field grown. So far, everything is technically “possible” except harvesting and soft fruits(like berries). I can automate(theoretically) everything from greenhouse operations to field prep to planting to fertilizing to limited harvesting and packing. We can do so far: greens, fruits(nightshade), foot crops, brassicas, squashes, pumpkins and orchard operations. Even some kinds of grains like millets and barley. With floriculture..so far I have only figured out sunflowers.. Now..Gots to figure out prototyping...
- leroy_masochist 8y agoThe math for the milking machines seems wacky. Average milking session is supposedly 6 minutes, which means each robot has a capacity of 10 cows/hour (not taking into account changeover time which is likely not trivial). There are 3 robots and a herd of 150 who are milked 4x/day on average. That's 600 total sessions, or 60 machine-hours, so this implies that each machine is operating at perfect efficiency 20 hours/day.