Open-source automated precision farming | Rory Aronson | TEDxUCLA
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- Опубліковано 2 лип 2014
- Rory Aronson talks about an innovative idea that can change the entire farming industry. He is a mechanical engineer and social entrepreneur working to help solve big social and environmental challenges. Currently he is focused on FarmBot, humanity's open-source automated precision farming machine, and OpenFarm, a free and open database for farming and gardening knowledge.
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Haha! Funny... I have had this idea since I was a teen. I think I even have the doodles left somewhere among my drawings. x'D
I had heard about how the soil gets destroyed and compacted by all the heavy machinery so I was like "Hey, why aren't you putting the machines on rails?!"
No doubt a great concept. What is needed are iterations to make it viable for large scale farming
Interesting ideas, thanks for the presentation.
Honestly a great idea for small backyard stuff so yeah hope this goes somewhere
Resource based economy for a better future. Vertical farming also a nice concept when combined with this.
semih oguzcan Vertical farming only makes sense in urban areas. It’s just not practical for production agriculture.
Rory! you rock bro! Definitely will get involved in this movement
How is it powered? I would think it would be more resource efficient if it were more like a cable car powered by overhead wires and used tracks or many wheels rather than the gantry system. Add extendable legs and it could farm along the contour of hills thus reducing water runoff.
Great stuff. Appreciate the presentation. Farm Bot is cool but do you have any links to an Open Source Rover?
Yes, we don't have to worry about planting in rows and population density. Have you ever seen plants? You cant plant them right next to each other and expect them to grow well.
Very informative video
So we have a growing employment issue and providing ways already well set people can have another reason, not to hire people, is a good thing?
If that little space is labour intensive and takes a lot of time then you are not doing it right. I take care of a space eight times that working only an hour a week except for planting and harvesting. It is sixty percent perennial food plants, twenty-five percent annuals and the rest of the plants are homes for beneficial insects building the soil etc.. I don't need to weed or water or use any chemicals. Yet my garden provides me with all my produce and eggs plus a nice little income.
The most useful tools I have are my brain, body and knowledge, which didn't cost me anything. Best of all is they don't break down and the only maintenance my brain and body needs is the nutritious food I eat and it repairs itself. show me any mechanical gadget which can do that.
Do you have a site or video where we can all learn how to do the same?
@@sverduijn1 Great question! I, too, want to see!
“People always say they can do everything”
because they don't feel old yet
where in the world do you live though? I feel like local climate has a large big impact
how many people has garden like this？
wow
How much do the tracks cost? How does it work in not flat fields? Just thinking that it would be good to show tricky things too and not only list the potential positive sides.
It could just hang from cables like a ski lift. Sensors could measure and correct the distance to the ground.
I want to see it in action. What is it actually capable of doing in reality as opposed to theory?
+Samy Ismael It would probably take all year scanning all of the rows.
who taught you that the poly cropping systems can sustain on their own without external augmentation with fertilizers?? There will be less pathological problems in a polycrop farm but I see no benefit in terms of fertilizers.
Farmbot.io is the url, pre-orders are open, they cost 4k
$3k for pre-order this month :) Or source the parts yourself and diy
Invest 4k in Farmland, Glashouses etc. = > more Crops to harvest
audio is so low.
The problem of this is that backyard people enjoy doing manual labour because it is relaxing. This tech needs to be reinvented in commercial farms.
I am seeing aluminum rails on hardly more than toys.
To feed millions of people, you need to think square
miles of farm land.
This is NOT the solution.
Agriculture is the results of many years of domesticated plants, at the end of the day you have to fertelize your crop, not matter if it is a monoculture, polyculture, agroforestry, organic or conventional system, if you want a good yield you have to fertilze.
Robots are taking our jerbs.
How does this have 17 dislikes?
Who dislikes this and why?
He is not differentiating between agriculture and horticulture. He build a solution for horticulture which only accounts for roundabout 8% of agricultural space, claiming it be a solution for feeding the world. Alas the world is fed by grains and oil seeds and not by tomatoes and cucumbers. This is a commonly used flawed narrative in this sector.
Check out Douglas Mallette and ***** . Investigate a resource based economy.
besides the distracting balls... this is amazing idea and can end world hunger.. lets jump on it..
Please tell us how it will end world hunger.
This should also be solar. No reason to waste electricity on something like this that sits outside all day....
It's Open Source. You can build your own version.
Use electricity, no reason to waste a large amount of resources on solar panel and battery.
On their website, it does mention solar. farmbot.io/ scroll halfway, to the green section.
Garrett Galloway airvolf autogyro
Farm-bot, so you can set it and forget it? What's next, cook-it-and-feed-it-to-me-bot? Seems people are missing the real benefit of growing your own food. Hint: has nothing to do with having more time to waste on the internet.
Worst tedx I’ve seen
Are you kidding? Farmbot? How about Flowerpot bot? This is obviously NOT a solution for any scale larger than a very small garden to grow very small plants or flowers. Built by engineers that obviously know little about farming, this is a good example of misleading marketing. I built one because I was curious and it failed as soon as a simple leaf blew onto the track causing the gantry to jam on day 2. If you dislike gardening, you'll hate Farmbot. If you like gardening, you'll hate Farmbot. Get a sprinkler, you'll save about $3500.
It's open source. If you know ways to improve it, just do it. Or hire somebody. No point just moaning. At least their heading in the right direction and getting people behind a better future. It's designed for backgardens and rooftops, not large scale anyway.
Sadly you are totally right; this does not make any scientific/ practical / ecologic sense. So you need to mine guessing about 50-150 tons of earth to get the metals to build farm bot, then you need to smelt the metal, refine the metal, ship the metal to a plant for component manufacturing. After that you need to ship the components to the "maker" who assembles the components. Even if it works perfectly the harvest it produces is worth about 1/1000th of the economic value of the maker at all the ecological cost as well. you would have to have 1000 harvests. Say you grow turnips (very quick) that is still about a 45 day cycle. That is 45000 days or 123 years for it to pay for itself assuming no operating costs (solar?) or maintenance or even considering the installation cost. This also isn't a problem that is solved by scaling up. Automated multi-cropping (or better yet an agroecosystem approach) does make a of of sense but the gantry- robotic approach doesn't.
Metal is used for many things so why would it be bad to use it for farming robots? At least it's used for food production instead of, for instance, pleasure yachts.
Also I think this 4000 usd is very overpriced. A few stepper motors and some aluminum profiles don't have to cost that much.
There is a big future in this.