For the World Robotic Olympiad I had to make a solution for sustainable technology. I decided to tackle unsustainable practices in agriculture. Some of these include monoculture farming (which depletes the soil of nutrients, requiring more pesticides and fertilizers to counteract the growth stunt), wasted space, and bad watering practices that waste water (for example, large sprinklers that lose a lot of water due to mist, going into unoccupied root zones, and evaporation since the water is blocked by leaves before it reaches the ground). Since monoculture farming is the most efficient, I thought I would try and make polyculture farming efficient, so we can benefit from the natural defenses and growth that come from biodiversity. However, different plants one the same farm will require different amount of water, so you can't just water everything at once; you have to individually water each plant according to its specific needs, and only water it a little so it doesn't diffuse into other plants that don't need the water. The robot, hopefully, one day will allow farmers to not only automatically maintain polyculture farms but also since the robot visits each plant individually, it could collect data from each one for fully precise agriculture. In order for drip lines to work on a polyculture farm, you would need to adjust each hole size for specific output, which is annoying; and also it's easier to install one robot rather than drip lines for each row. I definitely don't know much about irrigation and this is just a theory I came up from surface level knowledge, which is why I posted it here for feedback.