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This worries me from a positioning standpoint. I imagine a large amount of people with a garden bed, even a large one, garden because they like it, this would g
by antoniojtorres 2y ago
This worries me from a positioning standpoint. I imagine a large amount of people with a garden bed, even a large one, garden because they like it, this would get in the way of that. The device doesn’t appear like it would scale well to anything large enough, and even then it would compete with much more sophisticated solutions that do this.
I feel like it’s actual market may end up being pretty narrow, not that it isn’t it a cool idea, it is, but it just gave me that gut reaction that it falls squarely in the uncanny valley between industrial users and hobbyists.
- defrost 2y agoIt makes more sense targeted towards "people that like robots" rather than "people that want to grow their own food". I'm in a rural area and my first thought seeing this was "Good kit to play with for a growing teenager interested in agricultural automation" rather than "Serious industrial end use tooling".
- rahkiin 2y agoMy partner likes gardening. I like robots. This might work for us. That’s a narrow audience though..
- Maxion 2y agoIt could be useful in some research, allowing precise control of e.g. watering and automated photography of the plants. But that's about it.
- snickmy 2y agoDo you have any link to more sophisticated solutions ? genuine ask
- CapstanRoller 2y agowww.deere.com
- Loughla 2y agoLegitimately look into custom farming practices. The level of automation, data, and general technology in use in farming today is amazing.
- deutz_allis 2y agoyou can look into 'Precision Agriculture' and find quite a few solutions. Deere is pretty much at the front of the game with automation and data that provide farmers with the ability to make super informed decisions.
- nozzlegear 2y agoI posted elsewhere on this story about this, but I have a flower garden I like to grow and fiddle with each year, and I'd still be interested in doing something like this Farm Bot too. I don't think I'd purchase one, I'm more interested in building one from scratch (so I appreciate that it's open source), but just seeing what kind of automated vegetable operation I can set up with a raspberry pi, a few servos and some moisture/sunlight sensors has been a project I've wanted to do for a couple summers. Part of the draw is the potential for iterating on it, collecting whatever data might be collectable, adapting it to my environment or what I want to grow, etc. I've got a black thumb for vegetables anyway – that's why I grow flowers instead – so I really don't care if some or all them end up dying because the robot fails.