2 posts tagged with "agriculture"

How can autonomous mobile robots help Australia, the heart of macadamia nuts, regain its position as the world's largest producer? And what do Husarion Panther UGV platforms have to do with it? As it turns out, quite a lot!

The Australian macadamia industry, facing many hurdles and challenges, has been overtaken by South Africa. Macadamia nuts are indigenous to Australia. Now, Australia has about 18-20% market share. Addressing the problem of food loss during harvesting, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) developed a cutting-edge solution using the Husarion Panther UGV platform. This innovation aims to transform macadamia harvesting using advanced robotics to reduce waste and increase efficiency.

What inspired this RMIT project, and what technical challenges will they overcome? Dive into the details of this journey and the promising future of automated macadamia nut harvesting. 👇🏻

There is no greener industry than agriculture, right? While this claim may seem intuitive, current data reveals that land use related to agriculture contributes to as much as 10% of global CO2 emissions. With the escalating global climate crisis, the need to reduce agricultural emissions has become more pressing than ever.

But what if instead of drastically limiting emissions, we could just use the natural process of photosynthesis to address the challenge and actively remove CO2 from the atmosphere? Plants inherently capture carbon dioxide through photosynthesis, and the carbon they trap can be transformed into soil organic carbon - a phenomenon known as carbon sequestration.