Some engineering students at the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye, has developed a robot that can be used for farming as their final year project work.The students are Babatunde Akingbade, Omololu Babasanya, Oluwaseun Fagbule and Fikayo Sobowale.
The robodozer
The agro-robot was designed in pattern of a bulldozer, named robodozer and was made to avoid obstacles.
Oluwaseun, the student’s group leader, said during the presentation that: “The robodozer is a prototype of a bulldozer, which can be used on a farm land. If we have enough resources at our disposal, we can create a bigger robot that can be operated automatically.
The prototype we built cost us N100,000 and we contributed N25,000 each to order for the parts online.”
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