Show HN: Show HN: Sowbot – Open-hardware agricultural robot 8months progress
8 Months ago I made this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47123894 Since then we've done stuff, the software is much more mature, we've done some basic field testing on small dev platforms. We've moved from ESP32 for the microcontroller to a STM32. Volunteers have come, gone again, new ones arrived. We're getting ready for full scale field trials now. Been putting some videos of sim up on https://www.youtube.com/@rosmo-robot/videos Please critique again, and come join us!
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2026-11-10 13:00:31.075Z
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Repository: Agroecology-Lab/Sowbot. Source account: 8 Months ago I made this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47123894 Since then we've done stuff, the software is much more mature, we've done some basic field testing on small dev platforms. We've moved from ESP32 for the microcontroller to a STM32. Volunteers have come, gone again, new ones arrived. We're getting ready for full scale field trials now. Been putting some videos of sim up on https://www.youtube.com/@rosmo-robot/videos Please critique again, and come join us!
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Source votes: 1 votes (Nov 10, 2026 UTC; cumulative since publication) Recent records to compare: “不藏了！人形机器人全开源动真格，从机械结构一路拆到运动算法” (量子位, Oct 27, 2026); “pollen-robotics/microduck” (GitHub Trending, Oct 27, 2026). Shared themes are navigation hints; they have not been verified as the same need or independent corroboration.
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