What is it that manages to stands tall at two feet and is five feet long? Getting its juice from sun, it is capable of traveling at about three miles per hour. Still clueless? You got to be cause it’s the most up-to-date eco-friendly robot that we riddling about. Intended to control the unnecessary growth of weeds at fields, this solar-powered robot with 20/20 vision soon be moving up and down the crop rows at the experimental fields at the University of Illinois. All this is to aim to reduce the use of herbicide without using any harmful energy to power the system. This weed-killer robot uses GPS for navigation, and there are two small cameras mounted on a frame on top of the machine that allows easy judgment. If he sees a weed, he can actually tell how far away it is. Very smart I must say! From the two layers of the device, one layer cuts the weed, while the second layer applies herbicide to the cut weed. An on-board computer offers access to information that provides the morphological features of plants. This in turn helps the robot to verify a weed. Once a weed is identified, a robotic arm attached to the front of the machine engages a device called as “a custom-designed end effector. Another green feature, in addition to cutting herbicide use, is that chemicals do not drift off-target when placed directly on the plants. In today’s day, the robot is only used to combat weed infestation, but in the future, by upgrading it with more different sensors and cameras on the robotic arm, it can be used to judge soil properties or plant conditions. Via Image
