With more robots on the fields, new competition for harvesting ideas from Ontario High School students
As technology continues to shape every aspect of agriculture, a new competition is looking at high school students to think about new ways to install robots to work on the farm.
Launched this month, Agrobotics Ontario Challenge Farm will focus on using robotics to make workers safe, faster and more competitive.
To help bring your ideas into life, the deposit to schools will provide a robotics kit supplied by the tech company studica. Additionally, six selected schools will develop a prototype of his ideas at the Western Fair Association’s London farm show in March 20226.
Selected schools will also get $ 500 to help develop their design.
Chak Bursich is the chairman of Hagrant Robotics, which is currently a company Develops robotics for agricultural applicationsTheir products have a solar-powered vehicle that can seed and weed to any area with human hands.
Hagrant is also one of the participants in the competition, as well as a network of farms, research and testing new agricultural technologies, along with innovation form Ontario.
“Many students are interested in technology, and we are also interested in applying food on the table, so why are they not kept together?” Barisich said. “This is an up-end industry; billions of dollars are being invested literally worldwide in an attempt to improve agricultural production.”
Barcich said that the need for technical solutions on the fields is particularly pressurizing when it comes to harvesting and managing pests and weeds.
“Mourning is not just fun to deal with,” Barsich said. “(These machines) can work day by day, and they work completely autonomous without humans to see them all the time.”
Barsich said that technologies do not necessarily mean loss of jobs, but often farmers are allowed to transfer the workforce to other tasks.
Barcich said that there are many technologies that use robotics in controlled growing environment, such as greenhouses, but low form robots that work in fields.
“In crops like apples, strawberries, fruits and those types of things, a lot of work is to be done so far at that place,” he said.
The rules of the competition encourage students to come up with an idea, with a real -world application on the farm. Barsich hopes that the young minds will come up with some new approaches to farm problems.
An autonomous solar-operated cedar and aur, farmdroid, was painted at Canada’s outdoor farm show near Woodstock, Onts. Chak Bursich, founder and president of Haguerti Agobotics, explained what the farmroid does and how it can improve the operation of farming.
“Sometimes we have a habit of doing things in the same way,” he said. “So maybe some young minds can say,” What if we contact this with a different angle? ” This is something we are expecting. ,
Bridgete Mahon, the Agribusiness Manager of the Western Fair Association, said that the competition can be a way for students to keep their talent to solve problems in the farm environment for the first time.
He said, “Most of the teachers we have heard is a robotics club, their club cannot be focused on agriculture just,” he said.
Presentations for the competition are scheduled to be held in late November. Six competitive schools will be selected in early December.
More information about competition and submission portal is available Here,
