ur Precision Farming Rover (PFR) developed to advance modern farming practices. Acorn is solar-powered, light-weight, and open source. Precision Farming Rovers can be used to fight climate change, help to grow healthier food, and protect farmworkers and our communities from overuse of harmful chemicals.
Several versions have been built and tested, and the team here at Twisted Fields is close to making full PFR kits available for early adopters. We believe this is the best strategy for making this technology functional, low cost, and accessible to all. This will create an open source community that will rapidly adapt, improve, and develop tools that can help make sustainable agriculture a reality around the world even for small and medium sized farms.
Our solar-powered farming robot works when the sun is shining, relieving the tractor driver with self-driving software and uses photons instead of diesel fuel, therefore resulting in a reduction of pollution and contamination of our lands and waterways. To be able to run on solar power, using existing tractors won’t work. Our PFR uses a lightweight frame and mountain bike parts instead of cast iron and steel. Keeping it light-weight means reduced soil compaction, and solar never needs
refueling. Interestingly our motors move by twisted electromagnetic fields, coincidence? You decide.
The automated Precision Farming Rover will help commercial farmers establish sustainable food production systems and mitigate conventional farming’s damaging effects to the ecosystem by providing remote and continuous opportunity for crop inspection and remediation, as well as planting, seeding, weeding, and harvesting. At scale, the PFR will increase yield for commercial farmers, increase access to high-quality produce for the consumer at home and abroad, and reduce reliance on farming practices that harm the environment and the health of those working the land.
