Kit Franklin, Senior Lecturer e Principal Investigator - a mani libere Farm, Harper Adams University, dando un discorso intitolato "robot sarà nutrire il mondo?",
5616 x 3744 px | 47,5 x 31,7 cm | 18,7 x 12,5 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
12 ottobre 2019
Ubicazione:
ExCel London, One Western Gateway, Royal Victoria Dock,
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Feeding a growing population and looking after the land are huge challenges for agriculture today. Kit explains why precision farming is the way forward and introduces the technologies that are making growing crops and raising livestock more accurate. Kit shows how robotics in agricultural has a surprisingly long history and how these ideas shaped his work in the Hands-Free Hectare project. This set out to use automated machines to grow the first arable crop remotely, from planting to harvesting. He’ll describe the project’s first successful year and what the team learned to improve the second successive crop. Finally, Kit will discuss its implications and the future of agricultural robotics, including the newly launched, follow-on Hands-Free Farm project. Kit Franklin is an agricultural engineering lecturer from Harper Adams University. His role includes developing undergraduate course structure and content, student recruitment, international business development and innovative agricultural engineering research. Kit’s research focuses on “future farming systems” with the most notable project to date being the award-winning Hands Free Hectare. As co-creator and co-investigator he successfully managed the day-to-day running of the collaborative, Innovate UK-backed project, which set out to achieve a world’s first; using automated machines to grow the first arable crop remotely. From planting to harvesting the barley crop, no person entered the Hands Free Hectare. Kit sits on the executive committee of the Institution of Agricultural Engineers and was awarded a “Rising Star” of UK agriculture by the Farmers Weekly in 2017.
