Why should we invest in good pollination?! The mission to Mars will fail without smart space-farming.
In 2016 we pollinated automatically strawberries and garlic.
Years in space will require constant food production. If we
This year we have finished tests in greenhouses – we have
want to supply Marsonauts with fresh fruit and vegetables,
pollinated 2,000 sq m of tomatoes (approx. 28 metric
we need to consider a universal and efficient pollinator.
tons of tomatoes).
In Poland we already have reached that level – B-Droid is a robotic pollinator which can automatically locate, re-
So far, we have developed an autonomous flier and two
ach and pollinate different species of fruit and vegetables.
versions of an autonomous mobile ground vehicle.
Rafał Dalewski, PhD Eng. Warsaw University of Technology
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