Abstract: The intelligent cloud planting robot was designed and developed for the concept of family automatic small farm, with the function of automatic sowing, watering, fertilization, environmental monitoring and control integrated. Based on the Cartesian coordinate system hardware design and the DIY concept, the good space extensibility and easy assembly performance was realized. With a wide application range, the multi-granularity seed precision sowing was realized for the sowing mechanism. By the internet technologies based on the cloud service, the cloud planting management platform was developed. The function of the real-time monitoring for planting environment parameters such as environmental temperature and humidity, light, CO₂ concentration etc, the environmental control for the supplemental lighting and ventilation etc, the video surveillance for the field situation, the record, analysis and management for the plant growth data, all were realized by the computer and the mobile phone APP. Besides, the planting process was guided and the optimal maintenance plan was selected by the expert database in the platform. The robot is suitable for family planting, practice in popular science and planting experiment, with good practicability and market value.

Key words: intelligent, planting robot, Cartesian coordinate system, cloud planting management platform