RIPPA The Farm Robot Exterminates Pests And Weeds
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 พ.ค. 2018
- RIPPA, a fully autonomous robot, can cover five acres a day on a solar charge - finding and exterminating pests and weeds on every single plant over the equivalent of four football fields. Are robots like RIPPA the future of farming?
RIPPA stands for "Robot for Intelligent Perception and Precision Application".
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4:40
*"Swag bot has to learn what a weed is"*
My brain: 🤔🤔🤔
5 fbl field ÷ 6 km hr
\Detects a weed, whips out a flame thrower.. See's a mouse, whips out a fifty cal. ..
1:25 - 1:46
That's about the most vague description I've ever heard of anything.
it does .. many .. things. yes
"They used *_coding_* and *_algorithms_* so that drones didn't crash in each other"
Classic example of using a load of buzzwords to sound impressive without knowing what any of them mean. Stay vague so you don't get busted.
It should be yelling, “exterminate!”
LOL! So true!! Ha ha ha
@Curtis Tisberger Ha ha ha better!
O"There you are" when it find pest :D
Imagine that, finding Mars Pathfinder on some dusty farm... after all this time.. lol
Scarakus Right next to the moon landings sets.
Scarakus , do you know why they keep faking the true color and blurring the pictures that the Mars Pathfinder take ? , because Mars don't have a Blue sky and Earth does
Go to Devon Island (Canada) - you'll find it there.
Sucking blue bottle tops is hardly representative. Try tiny aphids under the leaves...
@FukAzz RS for sure
@FukAzz RS They used to use imported Africans in the Southern USA. They use Indians and Indonesians in the Middle East. The ME used to use white people from Europe, long ago. But, nothing beats a good ol' Mexican. Tried and true, fun to hang with and their food is awesome.
One plastic top can cause a entire shipment to be refused by a supermarket. It is very important. I reckon they will come up with an Infrared system for aphids
@@michaelsmith9714 ?
Spray soap. No reason why a micro sprayer and camera on an arm couldn't look under the leaves.
........gun mounts optional.
Those are for the coca and poppy plantations, in case you were wondering. CIA requested them for their massive poppy plantations in Afghanistan, because the local militias kept trying to destroy the crops and stop the heroin production in their country. The idea took off from there.
Gun mounts for shooting feral cats that kill protected native species of birds and other animals only.
@@VidarrKerr "local militia trying to stop the heroin production in their country" LMAO
its the freedom version
Let's hope the robot doesn't become sentient and identify humans as pests
The good thing about watching this with a 2 year latency is that you can look it up to check what its future was or has been. I wish I could always have this privileged time ahead to peek into the future to satisfy my curiosity.
Good thing they have their high vis jackets! Now the look official.
Dangerous work. Might get their feelings hurt.
the do look official....
Life outside of the lab sure is dangerous!
Neo 1999: "I know Kung Fu"
RIPPA 2018: "I know broccoli"
As an entrepreneur and a computer scientist, this is really impressive.
03:14
hes using ubuntu :) this makes me so happy
Watching this on Ubuntu as well...
@@brujo_millonario Watching in Manjaro
ArchLinux ^_^
Easy to code, open sourced and fast.
Watching from home
00:52 This literally looks like interstellar.
it malfunctions and starts ripping everything 😄
That is based on programming.
Destruction adds to the growth of the GDP.
@@Paul-gz5dp it isn't programmed to do things like that. Machine learning is based on algorithm and data only. No actual code is telling the robot what is what. The more it learns the better it becomes.
"These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.”
I invented this almost 50 years ago... in my head. Tanks for building it
Seriously?
a lot of weeds love being chopped into pieces and left on the ground, they think it's an invitation for each piece to put down roots
...and spread the seeds everywhere if bloomed.
had this very thing happen with some prickly weeds.
yep completely worthless
@@VidarrKerr icelander?
Irrelevant in this case. It just needs to keep the weeds down, not kill them outright. Going over the same tract of land every 2-3 days will keep the weeds down enough to keep crops safe.
4:39 "swagbot has to learn what a weed is"
Swag level = 0
@@matthewmcclain1316
*WEED TERMINATOR SOFTWARE*
swag_level = 0
scan_command = True
while scan_command:
sensors_data = int(input("Weed scan data Weed - [1] Not Weed - [0] >"))
if sensors_data == 1:
print("Weed Confirmed")
swag_level += 1
else:
print("Not Weed ")
print("Swag Level:{}".format(swag_level))
I'm getting flashbacks to my childhood when the movie Runaway was on rerun on TV.
This is laying the groundwork for what is to come.
5:56 "Its perfectly safe" right...... I have heard that before lol
They did it quite clever tho. If you look closely they actually use a silicon form that expands in just the right way while under air pressure. This reduces complexity and works quite well as you can see. And yes, its completely safe
@google429 And human drivers don't do this on a regular basis? Computers are already demonstrably better at driving than people are.
I'm glad someone finally taught it to recognize the crop and kill everything else. I couldn't make that sale to Ph.d.'s working on a much cruder version 25 years ago.
Interesting video, two years on, I wonder how this has progressed, or moved into other more advanced systems since uploading?
I doubt it
As a computer programmer, daughter of a farmer and highly concerned of cancer and the adverse effects of pesticides, this impresses me greatly. I think we should form a non-profit that gifts these to farmers.
Interesting , my security cameras in conjunction with the security software can identify faces, people, dogs , cats. I am waiting for the next step of recognizing residents vs visitors/intruders/thieves . Great work with the robot that can see the bugs and weeds.
From the thumbnail I almost thought the guy was spitting on the robot “God damn robot took mah job!”
i’m here taking notes for my agriculture class 😎
It has wheels and some sensors, O.K., like every Lego Mindstorm set. But I'm amazed this thing only needs a fraction of the electrical energie my drilling machine needs (looking at the size of those solar panels), and it still manages to drives through a muddy field without any problems! That's the real Innovation here!
Its been in development for 6 years, Has there been any large scale field trials yet?
I liked it. But I don't like that I can't see how many others liked or disliked it.
because its genocide robot
@@kanapesejau is there a little gas chamber inside of that robot?
@@Viktor007 an oxygen/nitrogen chamber yes
@@kanapesejau It's not a genocide robot. But for better or worse, it will displace a lot of manual labour workers from this type of job.
dem machine robots " dey took R jerbs"
It's all your attitude that makes you great in your business... 👍
A little fork to yank out the weed by the roots would be good. Laser ablation might work.
One company working on ag robots uses a rod that shoves the weed underground. Turns it into mulch.
Thats what I was wondering, just how does it work? An arm with a tool forked at the end.
Yea good luck with that.
just spray a concentrated stream of roundup on it
@@tseawell90 Bob Wallace has a good point about just driving the weed downwards with a rod but none of these ideas are much more difficult than the rest.
I love how he pretends to help picking up cabbage for the camera.
It's a baby, with learning capacity. It will be able to learn all kinds of situations and respond to it. All the best!
Nothng confuses a robot like an unexpected muddy squirrel fight.
I seen a robot kinda like this in the Movie Runaway with Tom Selleck.
Very cool! The Robinson family sure could've used one of those.
"Broccoli Will Robinson, broccoli"
It's also a lot harder to pick apples than just grabbing the apple and pulling .... sometimes you can pull the whole branch off and still not get the apple. So they end up re-engineering apples for being plucked and not taste or antioxidant content.
that was CUTE!!!! and AWESOME!!!
i once saw a cabbage harvester that had every single cabbage mapped and cutted it down using pressured water, there was a driver but he wasnt doing anything, the vehicle positioned itself on its own. these machines need those sensors to find where broccoli is and then should be easy to make harvester out of it.
I can only imagine the headache that will be giving enough environmental awareness to the fruit harvester so it doesn't get stuck on branches or damage them.
@5:00 Showing a fantastic way to loose much of your top soil. Leaving the soil devoid of all vegetation except for the cash crop is one of the best possible ways to loose the top soil to erosion and being blown away in a wind storm. Also maximizes irrigation needed because of all the water loss through evaporation.
Yep, these guys are not farming, they are machine operators.
Farming requires an understanding of the environment.
I would think that these machines would make planting a lower story 'green mulch' possible. They could identify plants that are neither crop or desired cover crop and poke them under. Need something like a vetch that grows only a couple inches high. Grow a nitrogen fixing green mulch and after harvest disc it and the crop remains into the soil.
lol this is how nearly ALL farming is done, its the most efficient method there is, a live groundcover would cost more, actually use more water, and take nutrients and sacrifice yield.
@@morrisl7 That's not true in the slightest. Australia is presently suffering tremendously due to poor farming practices which has lead to a spate of droughts and a continual erosion of arable land. Reducing ground cover increases evapotranspiration which, in turn, reduces ground water content. This has the run-on effect of further reducing ground-cover, disrupting nutrient cycles which makes soil 'silty' (no plant matter/soil replenishment process is ongoing now), and increasing carry-off from wind.
Poor water retention in soil (caused by lack of ground cover for reference) causes drought, flooding in nearby regions (due to tremendous increases in run-off), and kills off most of the microculture in the ground (which is responsible for adding nitrogen to the soil).
Modern farming is only efficient if you fail to weigh in the value of arable land into your calculations. As soon as you account for soil integrity and land maintenance, it's not nearly as effective nor efficient as it seems. The solution, for reference, is as easy as rotating fields to allow for fallowing and not disrupting ground-cover enmasse (certain kinds of trees and long-root grasses are an especially good means of 'rooting' water in an area to reduce soil degradation).
Is that mount Franklin bottle cap?
This robot is amazing 😲
Training a robot to exterminate undesirable organisms. What could go wrong?
Roboticist at 5:55: "This is quite safe." Where have we heard that before?
We haven’t.
Hollywood hype…
I mean, it's exterminating things with a spray, it doesn't have lethal force for a human. Either way, the way it works is it identifies an object in the frame, and then some hard coded logic tells it how to react to it.
That's cool, welcome to future
would love to try these small produce farmers
Seasons don't fear the RIPPA, nor do the wind, the sun or the rain. But the pests oughtta be.
That's so cool!
looks like the TH-cam algorithm is developing cabin fever from quarantine, given that it recommended this video two years after release.
It's the ABC, and you can leave comments.
Why would the release date matter?
definitely a prototype, btw what about bugs under the leaves ? what about small bugs ? but hey it's a good start to get a better production rate :)
It looks like the air conditioner from Brave Little Toaster.
the thing is, most pest hide under the leaves of a plant, not on the top in direct sunlight. can it sense them there as well.
I just had flashbacks of Runaway the movie.
What this will actually do in the long run is enable fruits and vegetables to compete against easy to harvest plants like wheat. That means healthier diets.
Eventually, farming robots will allow us to grow crops cost effectively in all sorts of places. Your front lawn. The roof of an office building. The side of a mountain.
@@tatumergo3931 Automating the production of goods has consistently dropped their final costs to consumers. It's true of anything you can name.
There's no proof at all that automation leads to unemployment. Compare countries with high levels of automation to countries with low levels. The standards of living will be much higher too. And they tend to be freer too.
UBI is the same old solution trying to find a problem to justify it. And that solution has always been "force other people to support me". Paying people not to work will create the predicted unemployment, just as it is doing right now, as some workers are collecting more by not working.
Automation actually creates powerful tools that enable workers to achieve high levels of productivity. Before modern trucks, it would take a worker with a cart months to transport what an 18-wheeler can do in days. And a worker driving a train can pull even more.
@@tatumergo3931 I don't know where you live. But if it has princes of food, it can't be good.
Ha, ha. JK. I know what you mean. Food prices are rising because of the pandemic. The hoarding and the supply chain interruptions. Automation isn't the ONLY thing happening. And automation in food processing is not advancing THAT radically.
But since you've mentioned food, you should consider how food production, processing, delivery and cooking are all going to be automated and the positive impact that is going to have on nutrition, choice and cost. We may even see automated agriculture happening in people's yards or rooftops without even going to the grocery store for a lot of items.
The cost of a restaurant quality is mostly
The future looks bright when considering all of that. And that's not even considering automated recycling of all sorts of household waste and reduction of resource use automation will make possible.
Do actually farmers in Australia do vacuum cleaning manual? And since when farmers started using vacuum devices to combat the pests???
"In these sorts of tests many things can go wrong. Robots not working. Robots becoming self aware. Robots going on deadly rampages." Seriously though, Its amazing!
one night, half acre loss its ripen broccoli. and apparently, the robot got bigger by 15%
5:05, thats what Tank did to Neo with jujitsu when fighting Morpheus
Brilliant idea!
Ah yes, interstellar is finally becoming real life
I thought it had Lazors everywhere
Good work. dont give up.
Is RIPPA an AWD vehicle? Definitely an AWS (All Wheel Steering) for sure
Why it vacuums pests instead of laser-piecing them?
Very impressive. But could it catch bad bugs instead of spraying toxic liquids on them? That would be super cool! Feed birds with them afterwards, and then the birds would keep control over bugs
Where to buy and how much?
I guess it's only a question of time the robot goes crazy and comes to vacuum me up as soon as i threaten "his" broccoli.
Awesome!
This is fantastic and sad at the same time.
NO it was not sad, people need to accept reality and stop holding back progress; if automation is an issue, we need to create a system to facilitate it, we cannot deny progress as humans as a whole.
UBI may be a solution though, I understand your concern and respect it.
@@dayejung666 We can go ahead and automate everything. But, people sitting around without jobs, even if they are being cared for financially, leads to depression, strife, violence, and all sorts of F'd up things.
I am already in a system that cannot be replaced by any automation, and not likely replaced by AI for decades, or more to come.
What is sad, is that all the people replaced by machines will be obsolete and eventually die off. Money cannot solve this problem.
So, essentially, these people will have to "accept reality", as you put it, and die off.
Whether this is good or bad is a value judgement. Perhaps people will just have to accept reality.
Who else isn't the least bit surprised to find out that a machine called RIPPA is Australian?
Australia still gets it.
Rippa Splitta goes full exterminatus on those weeds
Because I thought we’d all be eating Soylent Green in the future who needs a robot when you got Soylent Green???
@@philxdev at least humans contain fat, unlike the toxic vegetable monsters using up resources we need to make Soylent green.
Beautifully looking veggies ,which taste like oak bark
When the unbox Therapy guy was in his teens.
3:58, "That's a lot smarter than what we actually need"
5:20, "Mechanizing the harvesting will be what's our #1 priority"
I can't help but wonder if the researchers are so caught up on doing what they want, they're not listening to what the farmer actually needs.
As he said its the mechanization of the harvest that is so hard. Softwarewise it would be easy to implement. But saving pesticides and such is also nice.
And yea, those pesky students like their AI Robots. ':D
I have been farming most of my life and the biggest problem I see is it is really slow and what would the cost of one of these robots be, in order to check each row for weeds and pest on a large farm by the time you got 10% done the rest of the crop would already be destroyed by pests and weeds. I'm just guessing but I would think that for what this thing costs I could hire a fairly large crew to do the work for a couple of seasons.
Maybe someday they can get it to work good but not today.
@@jdurham8581 How fast does it need to be? 4 acres a day on solar power alone, should be 16 acres a day if it had access to refueling
@@flakgun153 4 acres a day on solar power alone doesnt mean it can't work at night without access to refueling. I am sure there is a battery pack in there somewhere
@@flakgun153 Given that the average farm is 778 acres in Canada and 444 acres in the USA, I'd say it needs to be a whole lot faster. At 16 acres a day it would take that robot a month and a half.
it's now wierd seeing people shake hands
Amazing, good luck boys
Was just thinking about this as a way to replace pesticides and herbicides. We might then see the clash between the tech and chemical industries and lobbies. Great set of technologies for organic farming seems like. I'm excited about this
you don't say where to buy these.
They should put windshield wipers made of soft cloth on the solar panels to wipe away foreign particles.
smart
There’s an interesting sci fi concept out there that’s worrisome. What happens when someone makes robots that make more robots that make more robots ..........
Ah, technological singularity, at last!
what's next, robotic dropbear defense?
No one can replace the human hand
So 2 years on, is the harvesting robot ready yet? Cause 2020's when we really need it isn't it!
6:152 are you telling me that apple tree is growing from this 1 liter container of soil?
yes, if you want to grow plastic apples, you put it in a 1 litre plastic pot
Cartoon Robots knew how to do this 50+ years ago.
A bright blue bottle cap is much easier for a robot to see then an actual beetle.
One step at a time, you have to start somewhere.
Can you imagine the number of robots you would need for high volume, lower value crops like corn, wheat, or soybeans? You'd have fields just full of these things
can you imagine anyone actually weeding one of those crops or vacuuming pests off the plants individually? Soybeans just get a huge, automated tractor go over their paddocks 4 times during their growing season, spraying them all with insecticides & then they aerial or tractor spray the lot with herbicide 5 days before harvest in order to kill the plants to get even drying. Veggies can't get treated like that, hence why they need more specialised small machines or humans
It works for top-dressing Nitrogen for wheat in the late winter. The Nitrogen can be cut in half without affecting the yield. At $400 bucks a ton for Nitrogen is pays.
I welcome our new robot overlords.
interesting... but I think it's like trying to fix a broken system... a new approach to farming might be better than throwing another band-aid on a severed head... and also.. bugs often live in the soil at the base of the plant as well as UNDER the leaves- it is the severe infestations that manifest on the tops of the leaves (not saying ALL bugs here, but many)...
Interesting. What new approach(es) to farming do you have in mind? A more natural system perhaps?
@@Vir9il I would prefer a more natural approach, but the demand for goods may require a combination of the principles of nature coupled with the innovations that come with the understanding that science can bring... A solution that addresses the massive dumping of excess fertilizers into our oceans would be paramount- perhaps the use of aquaponics to cultivate both vegetable crops as well as fish suitable for consumption might be a good start.. or if the traditional farming approach is preferred, perhaps the use of grazing animals, in rotation, in between crops to help manage fields...(there are people working on this problem within the scope of their own communities).. Admittedly it looks to be a tremendous problem.. It just seems that there is a disconnect between the potential of emerging farming techniques and the traditional approach.. and I am not talking about using robots.. Nature has systems in place that we can better understand- spraying more fertilizer and bug killer doesn't seem to be cutting it... having some experience with aquaponic and hydroponic systems I understand the potential offering they bring to the table.. I truly believe solutions are there if some big brains can get together to work it out...
VERY AMAZING TECHNOLOGY WILL EASE HUMANITY IN NEAR FUTURE
The robots do not come with security recording cameras to deal with motocross and ATV trespassers. They are really common and they destroy lots of farmland, fences and start fires with their reckless antics. I sometimes wish the robots could be fitted with guns.
What about insects below the leaves ?
aight mate we're not talkin about the same weed i'm reassured
Interesting Indian agriculturist should also think of this kind of technology. Could learn a lot from Australia.
You can't just introduce to India, first we need to learn to grow without using chemicals
I started questioning the English I learned at school 😄
i thought the thumbnail was the guy kissing his pet robot
Very good
Very nice indeed......
Only if the bug will refuse to bail and stay put...