Farming robot kills 200,000 weeds per hour with lasers

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Posted by smallpond in Tech (edited by a moderator )

In 2021, Carbon Robotics unveiled the third-generation of its Autonomous Weeder, a smart farming robot that identifies weeds and then destroys them with high-power lasers. The company now has taken the technology from that robot and built a pull-behind LaserWeeder— and it kills twice as many weeds.

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Zenen wrote

I like it! I hope it doesn't cause some 21st century version of the Dust Bowl though

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podnas wrote

Dust bowl was caused by severe over farming not from killing weeds!

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Zenen wrote

It was caused by farmers using unnatural and extractive resource management. Not saying this is the same deal, just considering that we don't know how ~lasers~ might affect the soil & ecosystems. Hopefully it doesn't and we learned from our past!

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