NFU awarded £30,000 to teach STEM through agriculture
20 April 2021 |
The Royal Academy of Engineering has recognised the value of STEM learning through the lens of food and farming
The NFU has been awarded £30,000 by the Royal Academy of Engineering to teach Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) learning through agriculture.
The funding will allow the union to deliver five interactive afterschool sessions in the autumn term where children will get a taste of life as an agricultural engineer.
The afterschool clubs, called Anytime, Anywhere Engineers, will be hosted once a week over the course of five weeks.
The funds will also enable the NFU to create more 3D tours to include different engineering workspaces, such as Harper Adams University and the Small Robot Company.
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Small Robot Company
At Lockerley estate a robot called Tom is making its way slowly but steadily through 650 hectares of arable farmland. Weighing just 150 kilograms, the autonomous robot travels on four wheels, splashes of orange on its 1.8 metre long metal frame. Fixed out in front, at the end of Tom’s long crane-like lever, a powerful double camera scans each individual wheat plant poking out of the Hampshire soil.
Each day the robot, designed by UK start-up Small Robot Company, can travel up to 20 hectares in this way, collecting around six terabytes of data on exactly which patches of wheat might be blighted by weeds – a problem that, if left unchecked, can see whole fields of crops destroyed. Once Tom is finished, it’s the turn of Dick. A spider-like bot armed with a five-pronged “death wand” Dick can electrocute every single weed detected with a small puff of smoke, and zero chemicals.
Project set to deliver first 5G agri-robot The agritech start-up for sustainable farming, Small Robot Company (SRC), has announced its partnership in the 5G RuralDorset project together with Wessex Internet, Telint and Dorset Council.
The project will develop and prove a blueprint for rural-optimised 5G connectivity, with the worldâs first 5G-ready agri-robot for arable farms and will enable rapid deployment of 5G to rural areas. This has, according to SBC, the potential to dramatically close the Rural/Urban digital divide for farming and rural communities - boosting rural investment, creating skilled jobs and improving prosperity.
The project will develop a reliable and interoperable 5G network that is custom-designed for farmers and the particular challenges of rural connectivity. It will look to explore how 5G and its roll out might be able to provide a step-change in the industry. The £7 million project is being part-funded (£4.5m) by the D