This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Friday, 30 April 2021
The Robots are Coming (To a Field Near You)?
The Small Robot Company, in the UK, are working on replacing herbicides with robots (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/29/killer-farm-robot-dispatches-weeds-with-electric-bolts). A scout robot, 'Tom', scans arable farm fields for offending weeds. Tom's information is then fed to an Artificial Intelligence Engine ('Wilma'). 'Wilma' uses the information to instruct, 'Dick', the killer robot. 'Dick', powered by a Tesla battery, locks on to each target 'weed'. 'Dick's' electrode descends and the weed is exterminated (with extreme prejudice) using an 8000 volt shock! The robot weeding team can also work at night, by employing LEDs. Science fiction arrives on the farm?
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Noted a Curlew ( Numenius arquata ) on the Loughor estuary at Bynea.
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