The Vandalsoft Ramibot is an automatic robot designed for the Vandalsoft Insect Smart Farm. It was developed because in large scale insect smart farms, it is more efficient to have an intelligent moving robot feed, harvest and maintain the place rather than to have equipment separately installed in all the breeding racks.
The 'Ramibot' name is a combination of guiddu-rami (South Korean for cricket) and robot.
The main objective for this design project was to win the government fund from KOSME (Korea Organization for Small and Medium Enterprises) for the category of 'Smart Farm Technologies'.
Since there was a tight deadline for the fund, it was my main objective to effectively visualize our future product for presentation, instead of creating a perfectly engineered working model.
The Ramibot has sensors positioned at the base of its platform to navigate the interior of the insect smart farm. The sensors also lead the Ramibot back to its station when it is low on battery or feed.
The Ramibot station has a feed tank and a water pipe installed to refill the Ramibot's reserves. The bottom base of a station provides electrical charging for the robot's electric powered motors.
When the Ramibot is properly charging, the green light comes on at the base of the station.
Side view of Ramibot charging at the station.
Antennaes are on the back of Ramibot, to interact with the farm's command center (Aimoon) and receive farming data/ software updates. Through an interactive app, the farmer can also manually control the Ramibot remotely.
Ramibot's insect feed and water tank refilling.
Ramibot's charging screen.
The Ramibot has two mechanisms on the chest: one for watering the insects and one for spraying pellets of feed. The rendering above displays the watering mechanism.
The camera on the Ramibot's chest also monitors the growth and health status of the crickets.
Ramibot's hand is a hook and lever structure designed to carry and tip the crates of crickets into the harvesting machine.
A naked view of Ramibot's base.
The Ramibot model was created through SolidWorks.
The Ramibot in operation at an insect smart farm.
Through these renderings, Vandalsoft was able to win a maximum fund from KOSME of 100,000,000 won (83,445 USD).
