24 Robotics (Crawly)

Inspiration

Dairy farms require a certain level of hygiene to secure animal health, manpower health and avoid milk contamination, manure is considered as a major threat to all these 3 farm elements, a diseased cow could spread its infection to the herd through-out its manure, some diseases could be transferable to human "known as zoonotic diseases" also through manure (e.g. salmonella), and most importantly diseases and manure particles could be transferred to produced milk through milk suction cups. Manure could also be a source of revenue by turning it into biogas, using it as fertilizer or even selling it.

What it does

Autonomous Manure collector
We aren't building a scrapper like most others, we build collector (collect manure of the ground). Also, we collect manure once existed.

So, we serve non-highly standard farms like the one in the background with normal flat ground that definitely cost less, we also do not work on schedule or pre-defined routes like competition but rather we utilize AI to work when need, where needed and once manure existed.

How we built it

Milestone 1: Building & validating the manure lifting mechanism Milestone 2: Building the driving unit + manure compartment + Autonomous navigation Mileston3: Developing the AI computer vision system (Manure and cattle segmentation using masked RNN and CNN) and linking it to unit controls + fine tuning the outside look