It’s a good question and I incorporated my answer in to a top level comment here. Short answer: it’s a new type of vehicle so existing tools aren’t exactly right. We’re going to release the first vehicle to early adopters with no tools and then work with the community to design appropriate tools for it. This is important because every farm is different and so many people will have good ideas. We don’t want to gatekeep the design while we work on tools.
I will say that while it doesn’t do farming yet, that is the point of the system. And currently it autonomously controls 8 motors to follow precision GPS paths based on data from a central server and database system with a web page for control. It’s definitely a robot with some degree of precision!
Hah might need tougher tires. In my experience with my other rover robot dogs get real curious and run up close and bark but they usually don’t want to actually touch it because they’re too unsure of it.
Good you went with wheels instead of some kinda Boston dynamics deal, anything that looks like it has an Achilles seems to draw most of the attention of Kelpies and collies and other herding breeds. I knew one orchard roaming kelpie that would stare at the apple ladder foot for as long as it took until it moved so that it could bite the aluminium to herd it along.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34167102
I will say that while it doesn’t do farming yet, that is the point of the system. And currently it autonomously controls 8 motors to follow precision GPS paths based on data from a central server and database system with a web page for control. It’s definitely a robot with some degree of precision!