Overview
Rowbot provides robotic solutions specifically designed for row crop agriculture, representing the future of farming through automation and technological advancement in agricultural operations.
Flagship features
- Self-sustaining: extracts energy from bacteria in dirty water using Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs)
- No fossil fuels used, no CO2 byproduct (aside from natural decomposition)
- Potential applications: cleaning oil spills, monitoring contaminated water, telemetry in hazardous environments
- Mock digestive system: polymer membrane mouth, MFC stomach, waste removal canal
- Based on earlier EcoBot III (2010) research
- Collaboration between BRL, BBiC, University of Bristol, UWE
Specifications
Category: Agricultural- Payload
- 22 kg
- Speed
- 2.33 m/s
- Weight
- 35.16 kg
- Battery
- 4.5 h
- Price
- $8,857
- Status
- active
Detailed specifications
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- Max Speed Ms
- 2.33
- Sub Category
- environmental_remediation_robot
- Terrain Type
- aquatic
- Company Country
- UK
- Procedure Types
- Nitrogen fertilizer application to row crops like corn[2][3][6].
- Deployment Notes
- Expected to service growers in several areas during the 2021 season, narrowed down from expressions of interest[7].
- Weather Resistant
- true
- Additional Information
- - Self-sustaining: extracts energy from bacteria in dirty water using Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) - No fossil fuels used, no CO2 byproduct (aside from natural decomposition) - Potential applications: cleaning oil spills, monitoring contaminated water, telemetry in hazardous environments - Mock digestive system: polymer membrane mouth, MFC stomach, waste removal canal - Based on earlier EcoBot III (2010) research - Collaboration between BRL, BBiC, University of Bristol, UWE - Still at research/development stage (2016 article date)
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