Koleche ea Temo ea Univesithi ea Purdue e sebelisana le Gerrish Farms ho tšoara agBOT Challenge 2019, ketsahalo ea matsatsi a mararo ka la 16-18 Motšeanong. Ketsahalo ena e kenyelletsa NextGen Expo, ketsahalo e kopanetsoeng ea STEM, le tlhōlisano ea agBot, pontšo ea machaba le tlhōlisano ea mekhoa e mecha ea mechine e sa sebetsoeng ea agtech.
Liketsahalo tsena li kopanya menyetla ea thuto le tlhōlisano e lebisitsoeng ho lihoai, bo-rakhoebo, liithuti le baqapi ba agtech. Ketsahalo e tla tšoareloa Setsing sa Agronomy bakeng sa Lipatlisiso le Thuto (ACRE), 4540 US 52 West, West Lafayette.
Phephetso ea agBot, e leng karolo ea Mokete oa Maikutlo a Mokete oa bo-150 oa Purdue, e hlahisa potso: Ho thoe'ng haeba Broadband e Phahameng ka Lebelo e Fihlileng Batho Bohle?
AgBOT Challenge e thehiloe ka 2015 ke Steve Gerrish, mong'a Gerrish Farms e Rockville le morali oa hae Rachel Gerrish, e le karolo ea boiteko ba ho tlisa tlhokomeliso mabapi le tlhoko ea marang-rang a lebelo le phahameng libakeng tsa mahaeng. Nakong ea nalane ea ketsahalo ena ea lilemo tse tharo, lihlopha tse tsoang Amerika le Canada li nkile karolo phephetsong ea Gerrish Farms. Ketsahalo ena e ile ea bontša mefuta e fapaneng ea mahlale, ho kenyelletsa le a khonang ho jala peo ka boiketsetso, ho tsebahatsa lehola le ho felisa, ho tšela monontša le ho kotula mahapu.
"Phephetso ea agBOT e entsoe e le ketsahalo ea tšoantšetso ho fana ka pono ea se ka khonehang haeba re ne re e-na le theknoloji e phahameng le inthanete e potlakileng polasing," ho boletse Steve Gerrish. "Litlholisano ke mokhoa o motle oa ho tsamaisa boqapi le ho etsa boiteko bo kopanetsoeng sebakeng sa agtech."
Bankakarolo ba 'maloa ba liqholotso tsa nakong e fetileng tsa agBot ba tsoetse pele ho bapatsa likheno tsa bona tsa tlholisano kapa ba mothating oa ho etsa joalo. Ntle le ho totobatsa tlhoko ea marang-rang a lebelo le holimo, Rachel Gerrish o itse lebaka le leng la phephetso ke ho ntšetsa pele mahlale a temo a dijithale.
"Re thabetse ho tlisa Phephetso ea 2019 agBOT ho Purdue," ho boletse Karen Plaut, Glenn W. Sample Dean of Agriculture Purdue. "Ketsahalo ena e tla kopanya liithuti, bafuputsi le bo-rakhoebo 'me e tla bontša mehopolo le mahlale a macha a ka fanang ka tharollo bakeng sa bokamoso."
Ka la 16 Motšeanong, ACRE e tla bula mabaka a eona ho sechaba, e memela bacha, matichere, alumni le batšehetsi ba agtech ho NextGen Expo. Ketsahalo ena e tla theha kopano e ikhethang ea STEM fair e hlahlobang sebopeho sa mahlale a dijithale le temo.
"Temo ea dijithale, ka mefuta ea eona e mengata e fapaneng, ke bokamoso ba temo lefats'eng lohle," ho boletse Ronald Turco, hlooho ea Lefapha la Agronomy la Purdue. "Ka palo e ntseng e eketseha ea baahi ba lefats'e le maemo a leholimo a fetohang, lisebelisoa tse kang li-drones le likoloi tse ling tse se nang batho li tla hlokahala haholo ho fepa lefatše la rona le ho tšehetsa lihoai tsa rona."
Ho ba teng ketsahalong ke mahala ka ho ingolisa pele ho https://ag.purdue.edu/agBOT/.