Agricultural robot fills 60 vegetable crates per day

Prototype Agricultural robot fills 60 vegetable crates per day

2024-05-22 Source: DBU | Translated by AI 1 min Reading Time

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Robotics is increasingly penetrating new areas such as the agricultural industry. A new prototype now combines automated field work with power generation.

Among other things, the prototype should optimize the use of fertilizer and pesticide as well as water.(Image: AI Land) — Among other things, the prototype should optimize the use of fertilizer and pesticide as well as water.
(Image: AI Land)

The start-up AI Land has developed a semi-mobile agricultural robot called "Davegi". According to a statement, the machine should be able to plough, sow, water, fertilize and harvest. On 2,500 square meters, Davegi is expected to fill 60 crates with a total of 600 pieces of harvested vegetables in ten different varieties autonomously and self-sufficiently in terms of energy every day.

No shadow cast

The agricultural robot itself circles the fields with its eight solar modules. "This allows the crops to get enough sunlight while at the same time generating solar energy," says Josef Franko, founder of AI Land and developer of the prototype. According to Franko, the device thus achieves a 50 percent more efficient use of parallel energy and vegetable production compared to stationary shadow-casting agri-photovoltaic systems. "With our prototype, all plant cultivation processes - from soil cultivation to harvesting - can be carried out precisely, depending on the needs of each plant," says the founder.

Award-winning invention

For its invention, AI Land received the Innovation Award for Modern Agriculture, endowed with 5,000 Euros, at the International Green Week 2024 in Berlin. The start-up AI Land was founded in November 2020 by the Institute for Mobile Autonomous Systems and Cognitive Robotics at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences and currently employs 15 staff.

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