UBC Agrobot

As demands for our growing population increase a long with scarcity of natural resources and threats of environmental concerns, there is a pressing need for innovations in agriculture, to be more productive yet sustainable - a future proof way of farming. Started by a few students in 2019 with a shared passion for innovation and sustainability, AgroBot hopes to help accelerate the implementation of automation and robotics in farming. In our first project, we aim to build a fully autonomous robot capable of analyzing its environment and performing targeted weeding, fertilizing and soil analysis through the use of advanced robotics, image recognition and machine learning. Today, AgroBot is an official engineering design team at UBC with an interdisciplinary, 50-member team.