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The device is equipped with modern cameras and sensors. the widest spectrum, including laser ones. The robot collects and interprets any, even the most insignificant information, putting it into a single picture and sending the inspection results to owner’s email inbox.
One of the most interesting virtues of the Australian brainchild is that it runs on solar energy without requiring external power supply and continuous battery replacement. Robot has a semicircular roof. The combined photovoltaic converters that capture solar radiation and turn it into electricity. It is very comfortable, since agricultural work almost always takes place in the open sun.
“Katarina” is equipped with a special hand with sensors, allowing she “weed” the beds, analyzing the state of the upper soil layer. Sydney Robotic Engineer Sala Sukkariye, author of this ambitious project, said that the idea of creating a robot arose after he heard that the Australian agriculture suffers from a lack of automation, and this negatively affects the quality and quantity of local crops. Having no idea about the branch of the economy, aimed at obtaining food, Sukkari, however, enlisted the support of specialists in this field and ultimately created his robot.
New South Wales has become a testing ground for Katarina. Feeding only on solar energy, the works successfully analyzed the fields with beets, onions and spinach, sending detailed succaria team data on the state of crops, soil moisture level, as well as the presence of pests and weeds.
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