FarmBot Genesis is humanity’s first open-source CNC farming machine designed for at-home automated food production.
The idea lies at the intersection of automation, the open-source DIY maker movement, and small-scale polycrop farming.
FarmBot moves around in the XYZ space day and night, 7 days a week, growing food for you, just the way you want it to be grown. FarmBot precisely sows seeds in any pattern and density you want, and then waters them efficiently the exact amount that each plant needs based on its type, its age, soil conditions, the local weather, and your growing preferences.
FarmBot can grow a wide variety of crops all in the same area at the same time, while each plant is cared for individually in an optimized, automated way. By growing many types of plants at once, your garden will benefit from the natural advantages of polycropping and crop rotation, while you and your family gain from a healthy and varied diet.
Using the onboard camera and advanced computer vision software, FarmBot diligently monitors your garden, detects weeds as soon as they emerge, and then buries them under the soil. With the soil sensor, FarmBot can show you how your garden changes over time enabling smarter, more efficient farming with each passing season. With FarmBot your garden will flourish, your plants will thrive, and you will gain access to fresh food grown right in your backyard with the practices that you believe in.
You control and configure FarmBot using a powerful web-based interface, so no coding is required to grow food. With the sequence builder and scheduler, you combine the most basic operations of FarmBot into custom sequences for seed injection, watering, and even whole regimens for taking care of a plant throughout its life.
The drag-and-drop farm designer allows you to graphically design the layout of your plants for a game-like experience that’s fun, fast, and easy. You simply press the synchronize button and FarmBot does the rest.
Watch the video below to know more about Farmbot Genesis.
