What it is
Farmhand AI is a concept demonstration of autonomous agricultural robotics — a mobile platform (the Shepherd Rover) that brings computer vision and edge AI to precision farming and livestock monitoring. It’s an exploration of how the same edge-AI patterns I use elsewhere translate to working farms.
How it works
The rover pairs autonomous navigation (GPS + sensor fusion, obstacle avoidance) with on-board computer vision for crop-health inspection and livestock tracking, built on ROS with Raspberry Pi / Arduino hardware and OpenCV-based models. Solar charging keeps it running in remote fields.
- Autonomous navigation with dynamic obstacle detection
- Computer-vision crop and livestock monitoring on the edge
- Data collection designed for explainable, farmer-facing insights
Why it matters
Agriculture is one of the clearest places edge AI earns its keep — scarce bandwidth, real physical stakes, and a labor crunch. Farmhand AI is the concept that tested whether my safety-and-vision toolkit could move from sidewalks and skies to the field. (Concept demo — see the video.)