Quote Originally Posted by curious aardvark View Post
Ah - right I was envisaging a continuous cylinder being sliced into sections. Individual seedlings, yeah that's a serious handling problem. What you want is a robotics forum. Cheap robotic arms could probably be taught to do this task. And there are some really useful and relatively cheap arms around. You'd need to design a special gripper/hand/holder for the seedlings and a feeding system - which is where the 3d printing comes into play. But for the actual job itself - you need a robotic arm or two :-) My knowlefe on such things is pretty sketchy. But I do remember seeing a kickstarter recently about one with easy to change 'tools' and a simple learning curve. this kind of thing: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...rial-robot-armmcdvoicequick glance shows a lot of them around. So you need a bunch of roboticists to tell you which one can do what you want and to actually write the software and artificial intelligence routines to make it work :-)
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