2025 Innovation Award Winner

$20K Prize Sponsored by Farm-ng & Western Growers

Our robotic platform supports spraying drone operations by carrying the drone and all the components for the spraying task, including a water tank, chemical reservoirs, a mixer, batteries, andgenerators. It enables the drone to take off and land directly from the platform. Most importantly, the entire system, especially the preparation of the application mixture, is fully automated and managed through a user-friendly and intuitive mobile app, ensuring efficient and precise operation.

Spraying small and research fields has been challenging due to the labor-intensive tasks of setting up the drone, transporting it along with chemicals and water tanks, mixing the chemicals, and calculating the proper application rates for specific products and crops. Additionally, it often requires intensive personal field support, making the spraying task more arduous and costly than expected.

While the spraying drone emerges as an alternative to conventional spraying systems by reducing soil compaction, chemical waste, and low-volume application, most available support infrastructures, such as trailer-based systems, are expensive and impractical for small-scale applications. Consequently, there is still a lack of adequate and accessible technological field support. Therefore, we developed a robotic system on the Amiga robot to support spraying drone operations.