Why should we invest in good pollination?

the mission to Mars will fail without smart space-farming. Years in space will require constant food production. If we want to supply Marsonauts with fresh fruit and vegetables, we need to consider a universal and efficient pollinator. In Poland we already have reached that level – B-Droid is a robotic pollinator which can automatically locate, reach and pollinate different species of fruit and vegetables.

Rafał Dalewski, PhD Eng. Warsaw University of Technology In 2016 we pollinated automatically strawberries and garlic. This year we have finished tests in greenhouses – we have pollinated 2,000 sq m of tomatoes (approx. 28 metric tons of tomatoes).

So far, we have developed an autonomous flier and two versions of an autonomous mobile ground vehicle.