[maxioatic]

Happy to see this get some attention! I've been following it for the last 6ish years, and it's been cool to see their progress.

I think a few commenters are missing the point of this project. It's not a commercial robot and it's not meant to mass produce food. It seems maybe the use the word "farm" is being taken too literally. Their four stated applications are:

1. Education

2. Home use

3. Research

4. Accessibility

This is the description from their white paper [0]:

> The vision of this project is to create an open and accessible technology aiding everyone to grow food and to grow food for everyone. The mission is to grow a community that produces free and open-source hardware plans, software, data, and documentation enabling everyone to build and operate a farming machine.

[0] - https://farm.bot/blogs/news/the-farmbot-whitepaper