ASU Gets an Agricultural Robot

Astrakhan State University has got a new robot, procured through the programme FARMER of the international programme Erasmus+. Using the robotic manipulator KUKA, students will study high technologies in agriculture.

One of the FARMER project objectives is to promote modernization and internationalization of higher education. Russian and foreign HEIs have become its participants under the aegis of the European Union. The new robot of ASU is a very important step in training specialists for digital farming of the future.

"The robot is meant for educational tasks on training MA students of the programme ‘Agro-mechatronics’. The programme implies using robotic systems for solving tasks of agriculture, digital agriculture, precision agriculture, i.e. agrarian application of high-tech robots", Aleksey Rybakov, the Director of the ASU Institute of Physics & Mathematics, says.

It should be recalled that launching the new training programme at ASU was a joint effort of several faculties. Now mass digital transformation requires teamwork of technical and agrarian specialists. High technologies are being actively used in Russian fields, and ASU is to train relevant highly-skilled professionals.