Episode 190: FarmBot

We Dig Plants

English - October 03, 2016 18:09 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 62 ratings
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Today on We Dig Plants, hosts Alice Marcus Krieg and Carmen Devito do their part to contribute to the "robots will take our jobs" story! Our guest: Rory Aronson, the creator of the FarmBot.

This robot is installed above a planter box, before Raspberry Pi, a rudimentary (and cheap) computer pushes it into action. FarmBot then plants and waters seeds in order to grow crops with minimal human labor.