this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2025
20 points (95.5% liked)

Solarpunk technology

4271 readers
1 users here now

Technology for a Solar-Punk future.

Airships and hydroponic farms...

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
poVoq@slrpnk.net
KeraKali@slrpnk.net
bot@slrpnk.net
20
Open Hardware Rover for Weeding | ROMI: Robotics for Microfarms (romi-project.eu)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by keepthepace@slrpnk.net to c/technology@slrpnk.net
8 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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.

top 8 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] JSocial@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

https://romi-project.eu/

Didn't see the link anywhere.

[–] keepthepace@slrpnk.net 4 points 11 months 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/

[–] JSocial@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

Really cool project!

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] keepthepace@slrpnk.net 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] keepthepace@slrpnk.net 1 points 11 months 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.

[–] technomad@slrpnk.net 1 points 11 months 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