Back in 2015, I started a blog about harvesting coffee with robots. That ticked along for about a year and a half as we put together our first prototype, and then we bought a coffee farm. And then Hurricane Maria blew the roofs off our coffee farm and all the leaves off our coffee trees, and well, our lives turned into roofing and survival instead of robotic development.
But you know what happened this year?
We came out the other side. That's coffee ripening on our own trees. Two weeks ago we submitted a grant proposal to the USDA for a modified version of our original coffeebot project (we're focused on land tending first, because harvesting is hard). And you know, I think the world needs a coffeebot blog again. So I'm going to try it. I'm going to be posting pictures of coffee growing, coffee processing, and robot development, and yes, we do actually have a really limited amount of actual coffee for sale if you want to try some. It's good coffee. And it's not harvested by robots, but it might be the only coffee you can buy that's harvested by roboticists. And in a couple of years, we'll see where we stand.
Let's see where we can take this venture, shall we?
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