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6576# [Robotics for Microfarms develops open technologies to assist organic, diversified, vegetable farmers.]{class="block max-w-5xl"}
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1313- ROMI is a four-year Europe-funded research project committed to promote a sustainable, local, and human-scale agriculture. It is developing an affordable, multipurpose platform adapted to support organic and polyculture market-garden farms.
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1010+ ## Tools
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2020- The platform constitutes robotic tools, research, data and shared documentation and aims to help farming communities increase their production and improve their working conditions.
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1818+ ## Research
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2727- ## Robotic tools
2828- Open-source robotic tools can assist farmers in completing physically demanding or tedious tasks and can help with planning complex planting. Over four years, ROMI will work on the development of three robotic tools: a mechanical weeding robot, an aerial robot for crop monitoring and a 3D scanner for phenotyping in indoor and outdoor environments.
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2525+#header
2626+ ## What we do
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3131+ ROMI is a four-year Europe-funded research project committed to promote a sustainable, local, and human-scale agriculture. It is developing an affordable, multipurpose platform adapted to support organic and polyculture market-garden farms.
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3838+ The platform constitutes robotic tools, research, data and shared documentation and aims to help farming communities increase their production and improve their working conditions.
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3535- ## Field studies
3636- Undertaking research directly in the field means ROMI can develop with the expertise of professional farmers. The efficiency and usability of robotic tools are tested across four seasons at two core sites: Chatelain Maraîchage near Paris and at Valldaura Self-sufficiency Labs near Barcelona. Additional community sites may be used for research as the project develops.
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4545+ ## Robotic tools
4646+ Open-source robotic tools can assist farmers in completing physically demanding or tedious tasks and can help with planning complex planting. Over four years, ROMI will work on the development of three robotic tools: a mechanical weeding robot, an aerial robot for crop monitoring and a 3D scanner for phenotyping in indoor and outdoor environments.
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4343- ## Phenotiping and data science
4444- ROMI is working on advanced 3D plant analysis and modelling techniques for indoor and in-field data acquisition. Collecting and analysing data can aid in the development of dashboards that can help monitor the status of farms and provide situated plant data for agronomy. ROMI is working with novel adaptive learning techniques to deal with unexpected situations.
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5353+ ## Field studies
5454+ Undertaking research directly in the field means ROMI can develop with the expertise of professional farmers. The efficiency and usability of robotic tools are tested across four seasons at two core sites: Chatelain Maraîchage near Paris and at Valldaura Self-sufficiency Labs near Barcelona. Additional community sites may be used for research as the project develops.
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5151- ## Farming communities
5252- A new generation of farmers are starting small innovative market gardens in rural, peri-urban and urban areas across Europe. These farms often grow polycultures of up to 100 different varieties per year on small surfaces between 0.01 to 5 hectares. Polyculture and organic microfarms are proving to be highly productive, sustainable and economical, yet some of the on-the-ground experiences of farming communities are still unknown. ROMI aims to develop a better understanding of this emerging field through research, events and the development of specialised techniques and tools.
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6161+ ## Phenotiping and data science
6262+ ROMI is working on advanced 3D plant analysis and modelling techniques for indoor and in-field data acquisition. Collecting and analysing data can aid in the development of dashboards that can help monitor the status of farms and provide situated plant data for agronomy. ROMI is working with novel adaptive learning techniques to deal with unexpected situations.
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6969+ ## Farming communities
7070+ A new generation of farmers are starting small innovative market gardens in rural, peri-urban and urban areas across Europe. These farms often grow polycultures of up to 100 different varieties per year on small surfaces between 0.01 to 5 hectares. Polyculture and organic microfarms are proving to be highly productive, sustainable and economical, yet some of the on-the-ground experiences of farming communities are still unknown. ROMI aims to develop a better understanding of this emerging field through research, events and the development of specialised techniques and tools.
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6767- ## Documents
6868- ROMI is an open source, open-hardware project which allows communities to adapt and develop designs to their own needs whilst sharing back to a growing community. Documentation, resources and tools are made public as they become available through output of the four-year ROMI research and development.
6969-7070- The project's output is also made publicly available. The resources currently available are listed on [our downloads page](/downloads).
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8585+ ## Documents
8686+ ROMI is an open source, open-hardware project which allows communities to adapt and develop designs to their own needs whilst sharing back to a growing community. Documentation, resources and tools are made public as they become available through output of the four-year ROMI research and development.
8787+8888+ The project's output is also made publicly available. The resources currently available are listed on [our downloads page](/downloads).
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