Ming Chen

building robots to grow real food

[Ming Chen @mingfarmbots]

@hthieblot Organic produce grown by collaborative robots, 2-4x more food. Full automation in the works.

[Ming Chen @mingfarmbots]

@Ryan_Resolution @IsaacSin12 @makermodsai @rickythefrog33 Keeping it simple, I like it. I saw robstride has a powerboard they make, was that a contender at all in your prototyping?

[Ming Chen @mingfarmbots]

@merthinrobotics insane, whats the scale of the bot, cant tell if its 2m or 20cm

[Ming Chen @mingfarmbots]

@chesterzelaya Agreed, we need more software engineers who ship instead of pure robotcists that only demo.

[Ming Chen @mingfarmbots]

Our farm robots carry stuff and follow. Feature #1, many more features cooking.

[Ming Chen @mingfarmbots]

@clankrmedia b-bot

[Ming Chen @mingfarmbots]

@naturalSmartnes @vincentslab @Venturi @coprod_Inc Hmm definitely will take a look into the EV power profiles, should be good inspiration. Its definitely a fun field to be building, that is when you aren't being bitten by every bug under the sun lol (next venture, anti mosquito artillery)

[Ming Chen @mingfarmbots]

@ErenChenAI might try running to work like that tomorrow, if you can't beat em join em.

[Ming Chen @mingfarmbots]

We're building robots for organic produce farms.

Why organic?
💰less synthetic fertilizer
🧪no synthetic pesticides / herbicides
🌊less chemical runoff into water
🛻more local food production
🧑‍🌾food sovereignty
and yeah, it tastes better

The problem:
🐌growing this way takes a lot of human labour
weeding, planting, harvesting, hauling
🤕repetitive + physically brutal work
📈more acres = more people

So we're building collaborative robots that work alongside farmers.

Make each worker more productive.
Make the work less painful.
Eventually automate more of it.