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Open Hardware Rover for Weeding | ROMI: Robotics for Microfarms (romi-project.eu)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am doing some review for farm robotics and I stumbled upon that project, which I thought was pretty cool. I have met the people who are doing it 6 years ago, when they described themselves as "hippies working off the sustainability budget of Sony Research" and looks like now they manage to live off public European funding and open sourced their designs.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

https://romi-project.eu/

Didn't see the link anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thanks! I did mess up!

I fixed the post link. And here is the link to the software and hardware:

https://docs.romi-project.eu/Rover/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Really cool project!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hmm, constantly turning over the top soil like that seems bad for erosion, especially in outdoor fields.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It is probably lighter than a human and probably a more distributed mass.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I meant their method to mechanically turn over the top soil to kill weeds. You can see it in the video.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Ah yes. I think their main subject is identifying plants and navigation. Tools can easily be changed. From pushing down weeds below the surface to delivering a micro-dose of aimed weedkillers, there are many ways.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I imagined a robotic auto-plucker, but what we got is a little rotary tiller thingy. Still cool, but not what I was hoping for. Lol