Dock-fighting jet
Mar 11, 2022
3 minutes
Anja Böhrnsen, Andrew Pearce
Docks are nothing if not tenacious. As someone said: “Dig ‘em up, burn ‘em, and the smoke will grow.” Over in Bavaria this endearing quality is a problem for livestock farmers, not just for dock’s unpalatability to cattle but also because a local area-based payment depends on a raft of conservation measures – which includes a ban on blanket-spraying grassland.
Automation up, inputs down
With this in mind, mechatronics students Andreas Breher and Simon Cordella produced a camera-controlled spot sprayer. They called it the RumboJet, pairing the
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