Robots for Community Urban Agriculture

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This project will work towards the development of a robotic solution to assist urban communities withgrowing their own produce.Project aims and key questions:1. User attitude and requirements synthesisa. how do we preserve and promote the health, well-being, social and community benefits of working with and on the land while automating and assisting to increase accessibility and productivity?b. how might users want to engage with shared assistive robots/ robots for collective purpose?2. Determine suitable Community - Robot Interaction policies and affordancesa. how can we balance assistance and automation for individuals with different wants, needsand capabilities within a community group?b. how might we evaluate system performance in achieving both community and individual goals?3. Propose a robotic concept to assist with community urban agriculture24. Create and assess sub- /system prototype usability