A German consortium is developing an autonomous robot, AMU-Bot, to solve the problem of manually hoeing weeds out of crops without having to spray those crops with herbicides or pesticides. The project is being funded
, AMU-Bot, to solve the problem of manually hoeing weeds out of crops without having to spray those crops with herbicides or pesticides. The project is being funded by the German Federal Office of Agriculture and Food and coordinated by the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation. The institute also designed the height-adjustable rotary harrow that the bot uses to pull up the weeds.
The bot moves along caterpillar-type treads and is capable of autonomously traveling up and down rows of plants in all types of farming settings — such as orchards, tree nurseries, or vegetable fields. Using onboard lidar scanners, it’s able to stay between the rows while seeing where each row ends so it can turn around and repeat the process down the next row.
The AMU-Bot isn’t able to identify the specific types of plants. However, it is able to understand the difference between crop plants and weeds. When it sees a weed, the bot removes it. It’s able to do this via a rotary harrow that churns up the soil and uproots the weed. It’s also able to pull the weeds growing between the rows by deploying the harrow directly in front of the robot as it moves forward.
For now, it’s not known whether or not the weed-killing robot will enter service. There are also other types of robots being developed that use lasers and electrical pulses to kill weeds.Some Information On Herbicides — Particularly Glyphosate Certain herbicides can be pretty harmful to the environment and life itself. Glyphosate is one in particular and it is the active ingredient in Roundup, which is the world’s most heavily used agrochemical., which shares environmental research for everyone, looked at two studies by the US Environmental Protection Agency conducted in 2017.notes that the EPA evaluated the effect of this herbicide on plants and animals, including humans.
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