Designed For Agriculture, The Solar-Powered Robot Assists Farmers in Ceará

Written by Valdemar Medeiros

Published on 07/01/2021 at 10:39

Updated on 07/01/2021 at 10:58

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Created From Recycled Materials and Powered Entirely by Solar Energy, the Robot Named “Vespertílio 01” Promises to Assist in the Agriculture Sector.

At the Edson Queiroz Professional Education School, in the city of Cascavel, Ceará, first-year high school students developed a robot made from entirely recyclable materials, such as motorcycle scrap and other automobiles, and powered entirely by solar energy. The robot, already named “Vespertílio 01,” is a seed planting robot designed to assist in small-scale farming, helping producers with land tillage and planting.

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Initially, in Brazil, there is no agricultural robot due to the expensive machinery; the students developed the fully sustainable robot to provide farmers with easy access. The name given to the robot that will assist in agriculture, powered entirely by solar energy, “Vespertílio,” comes from Latin, meaning bat, which is one of the main animals responsible for sowing the land.

VIDEO – Vespertilio 01, the Solar-Powered Robot

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Student Ud Madeiro Pereira, along with two classmates, Jamilly Félix Lima and Anna Beatriz Santos Fonseca, came together to develop the mechanized seed planter robot to assist in agriculture, which not only saves the farmer’s effort but also increases their production at an affordable cost. The system allows users to define the quantity of seeds to be planted and the distance between them. Due to the student living far from urban areas and closely observing the challenges faced by rural workers in finding machinery due to high prices, they decided to develop this solar-powered robot.

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