LINCOLN BIG CAT BOTS Botball Team #07-0047
Agrobots - Today and Tomorrow
Agriculture involves the systematic producing of food, feed, fiber, and other goods. In addition to producing food for humans and animals, agriculture also produces cut flowers, timber, fertilizers, animal hides, leather, and industrial chemicals.
Food is anything made up of carbohydrates, fats, water or a protein that’s eaten by animals or people for nutrition or pleasure.
Fodder is food made from vegetable or animal bi-products that is for animals including livestock, pigs, sheep, and chicken.
Fiber is a class of material including cloth, cotton, linen, jute, flax, ramie, and sisal.
Agriculture comes from two Latin words:
ager which means a field
culturia which means cultivation, the tillage of the soil.
A lot of the world’s workers(42%) are involved in agriculture in some way. [15]
A robot is a machine that can be programmed and reprogrammed to do certain tasks and usually consists of a manipulator such as a claw, hand, or tool attached to a mobile body or a stationary platform.
Autonomous robots work completely under the control of a computer program, often using sensors to gather data about the surroundings to navigate.
Tele-controlled robots work under the control of humans and/or computer programs.
Remote-controlled robots are controlled by humans with a controller such as a joystick, or other hand-held device.
The word ‘robot’ came from the Czech word ‘robota’, which means forced labor, or work. It was first used in the play R.U.R., Rossum’s Universal Robots, written in 1921 by a Czech playwright named Karel Capeck.
Isaac Asimov was the first person to use the term ‘robotics’ in “Runaround,” a short story published in 1942. [15]
Original art by
Mark
Put agriculture and robotics together and you get:
AGROBOTS
Machines programmed to do agricultural tasks and farm assignments.
