Challenge 3 Design an agri robot

Farmers have always used technology, including robots, to help them with growing and harvesting. Could you design a robot to improve farming, soil health or even measure soil moisture for better farming?

Explore the farming robots on page 3 for more brilliant ideas!

Tiny tech –powerful solutions!

Micro:bits might be small, but if you apply what they can do on a large scale, you might be able to solve some of the larger scale problems with farming, such as degraded land and soil, land affected by drought and floods and more.

Check out a micro:bit Smart Farm!

Check your plants’ soil moisture and make sure they’re getting enough water, regularly!

Build a soil moisture meter.

Learn more about using the virtual micro:bit and see what you can create even without a real micro:bit.

Brainstorm farming and land problems and think of solutions - try a Jamboard!

Create a team and explore which kind of tech you could use to support this problem - build a list of pros and cons

Share your idea with a farmer or with us!

Content source: The Royal Agricultural Society of NSW

Sowing the ideas seeds...

Explore some of these data sets and use the information to spark your creative solutions.

Learn about tech on the farm

Design your own farming drone with the Royal Agriculture Society

Take a tour of Tocal Virtual Farm