Drones & Automation

Overview

Drones & Automation is a fundamental component of regenerative village development. This guide synthesizes knowledge from re:build gatherings to provide practical insights for implementing drones & automation in community projects.

Key Insights

Planting drones: Drones can plant at scales far beyond human capacity—some can plant what would take a human 1,500 days to accomplish in a single day.

Coral restoration drones: Drones are being used for coral restoration, planting coral at rates around 200 times what a human can do, enabling large-scale reef restoration.

Monitoring advantages: Drone monitoring of fields can spot disease, predation, or other issues way faster than ground-based observation. When traveling through fields that are hundreds or thousands of acres, problems often aren't visible until they've proliferated too far.

Technology and natural resources: Some practitioners began exploring how to look at natural resource flows through the lens of technology. Ten years ago, this was predictive conversation about what was coming in terms of AI, machine learning, robotics, and related interventions.

Robotic farming: There's exciting technology in organic bio-dynamic farming interventions that are robotic and robotically assisted, enabling precision agriculture at scale.

Built environment automation: Technologies like geoship demonstrate opportunities for automation in the built environment, including cladding and design thinking, with many opportunities to model and optimize.

Examples and Case Studies

There's so much exciting technology in terms of organic bio-dynamic farming interventions that are robotic and robotic assisted, just by one way of example, or geoship, for instance, in terms of the built environment in terms of cladding or in terms of design thinking, lots of different opportunities to model

Implementation Guide

To implement drones & automation in your regenerative village project, consider the following approach:

Implementation details to be added.

Challenges and Considerations

However, some of the work that I've been doing with drone monitoring of the field is able to spot disease or predation or any kind of thing, way faster than I can when I'm traveling through fields that are hundreds of acres, even dozens of acres or thousands of acres, you don't see the problem until it's proliferated too far