Agricultural Robotics and the Acorn Platform

The chapter discusses the speaker's interest in ag robotics and their own hobby farm, emphasizing the challenges of growing specialty crops and the lack of technology available to farmers. They then introduce the Acorn robot platform as an open-source solution for robotics in agriculture, addressing the problem of starting from scratch when building agricultural robots. The chapter also highlights the environmental benefits of using solar energy in farming and the ability to have multiple robots working continuously.