Agricultural Robots are Transforming the Farming Applications
Published on : Tuesday 04-08-2020
Agricultural robots or agribots are adopted by various users in the global farming industry to improve productivity in every aspect. Farmers are integrating these robots across the various applications to achieve the targets with the highest efficiency possibility.
Agricultural robots are carried out from weed-removing and fruit-picking to digitalizing yields and soil monitoring, as these bots have the ability to enhance farming processes in just about any area of the sector. Although the installation of these robots can require a high upfront investment, it can lead the user with long-term returns and helping to reduce labor costs and increase productivity.
There is widely seen in the trend of facing a shortage of people willing to work in the industry and resulted in many migrants being employed in the sector. This is the main factor for the penetration of agricultural robots to assist the farmers and minimize the dependency on laborers across the world.
Agricultural Robots use to monitor soil
The Small Robot Company’s – who are based in Portsmouth, UK – agribot Tom, lives onsite and monitors crop and soil consistency, digitalizing the production. It collects data on a plant by plant basis, keeping track of the health and development of each biology.
The completely autonomous robot returns to the ‘kennel’ when it is out of charge and replaces its battery for a fully charged one. The robot then also downloads the gigabytes of data collected over the day for analysis.
This agribot reportedly knows exactly where a farmer’s plants are, whether they are germinated and what they need. Robot Tom will even suggest what fertilizer and chemicals are needed to maximize crop yields.
Implementation of Agricultural Robots
The implementation of agricultural robots or agribots can take care of various processes such as feeding, seeding, and weeding autonomously. They will reportedly only feed and spray the plants that need it, giving them the optimum levels of nutrients and support, with no waste.
Current robots at Small Robot Company include Tom (a crop and soil monitoring robot), Dick (a precision spraying and laser weeding robot), Harry (a precision drilling and planting robot), and Wilma (the operating system).
The agricultural robots have five mechanical features which reportedly enables it to remove weeds effectively:
• The weeding brush: this covers up weeds in the crop row and deprives them of light and air
• The spiked harrow: this removes sprouting weeds from the crop row
• The five-teeth harrow: this loosens beaten and compacted soil
• The hoe share: a non-selective mechanical weeding tool, designed to remove weeds between the crop rows
• The torsion spring: this removes young weeds from the crop row
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