Become a FarmHero!
Visit the exhibition at Vitenparken and play your way through the lettuce field. Our new installation, FarmHero, is about precision food production.
The future is now! With today's technology, it is possible to spray herbicide only on the weeds – not on the crop or the ground. Using machine vision and advanced nozzle technology, the herbicide is precisely sprayed directly on the weed leaves, without hitting the crop. This can reduce the use of herbicides by up to 95%.
Can you hit the weeds?
With our new installation, FarmHero, you can try your hand at precision farming. Go out into the field and remove the weeds – without damaging the lettuce and other food plants growing in the field. Take a seat at the interactive installation, focus and press the buttons! How many weeds can you remove before you run out of pesticides?
Precision agriculture
DAT AS has technology that measures the amount of weeds while the farmer sprays the field. The machine system calculates the weed load, and turns off the sprayer where there are few weeds. This increases yields and typically halves the use of pesticides in grain production. The technology was developed by Adigo in collaboration with Bioforsk Plantehelse (now NIBIO) and is used in precision agriculture , for example in the research project Asterix .
Look into the invisible
FarmHero is part of the exhibition “Look into the Invisible” . With this exhibition we invite the public to share our fascination with the borderland between science, art and technology.
“Seeing into the invisible” is about being able to see with the tools of researchers. Not only can we glean exciting results from research and innovation, but we can also provide a taste of why researchers’ everyday lives are so exciting and fascinating. Art and science are fundamentally different, but they also have a number of common denominators. Curiosity, creativity, a creative urge, cutting-edge expertise, technological and craft skills are common traits for both researchers and artists. In this exhibition, art, science and technology meet in an inspiring and challenging way. The exhibition is produced by Vitenparken Campus Ås, and curated by Egil Paulsen.