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Happy to see this get some attention! I've been following it for the last 6ish years, and it's been cool to see their progress. I think a few commenters are mi
by maxioatic 5y ago
Happy to see this get some attention! I've been following it for the last 6ish years, and it's been cool to see their progress.
I think a few commenters are missing the point of this project. It's not a commercial robot and it's not meant to mass produce food. It seems maybe the use the word "farm" is being taken too literally. Their four stated applications are:
1. Education
2. Home use
3. Research
4. Accessibility
This is the description from their white paper [0]:
> The vision of this project is to create an open and accessible technology aiding everyone to grow food and to grow food for everyone. The mission is to grow a community that produces free and open-source hardware plans, software, data, and documentation enabling everyone to build and operate a farming machine.
[0] - https://farm.bot/blogs/news/the-farmbot-whitepaper https://farm.bot/blogs/news/the-farmbot-whitepaper