Carbon Robotics recently released its third-generation weed machine that combines artificial intelligence and lasers to eradicate weeds from the farms.
After meeting with a bunch of farmers and talking about their costs and biggest struggles with automation, weed control really kept popping up.
So, we built an autonomous robot that drives itself and uses computer vision to kill weeds with a really high-powered laser.
Paul Mikesell. CEO of Carbon Robotics told Ag Funder News
Each robot looks like a large box on wheels, roughly the size of a medium tractor. It weighs about 10,000 pounds.
The robot can weed roughly 15-20 acres a day, replacing crews to do the weeding by hand.
The robots are equipped with eight 150-watt carbon dioxide lasers that are capable of cutting through metal. It has 12 cameras installed and connected to an onboard computer powered by AI, scans the weeds, and zaps them dead, according to Freethink.
We use a similar technology to what Facebook might use to show you that the person in your photograph is your cousin, or that self-driving cars use to locate pedestrians or lanes on the highway [and] repurposed it for weeding.
Paul Mikesell
We’ve had to develop a really powerful lighting system that synchronizes with our cameras to give us the image quality that allows us to have this kind of accuracy to run day and night.
According to Ag Funder News, the company believes that the microbiology and the soil will be left unaffected with the utilization of the laser technology.
The robot costs over hundreds of thousands of dollars, which is out of the price range for many famers. For others that have bought one, the company says it will pay for itself in roughly 2-3 years. Currently they are all sold out for this year.
This is one of the most innovative and valuable technologies that I’ve seen as a farmer. I expect the robots to go mainstream because of how effectively they address some of farming’s most critical issues, including the overuse of chemicals, process efficiency, and labor.
James Johnson of New Mexico’s Carzalia Farm stated in a press release
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I mention this report because it further demonstrates yet even more jobs that will be lost and destroyed, all the while its environmental, ecological, agricultural effects are yet to be seen.
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