NEXT with John Koetsier
NEXT with John Koetsier
John Koetsier
Self-driving farmbot kills 100,000 weeds/hour by laser: no herbicide!
22 minutes Posted Oct 14, 2021 at 6:16 pm.
Laser-powered weed killer
AI, computer vision, robotics
Herbicides and weeds
Health impact and food quality
Robots with lasers
How it works
Autonomous driving
Speed and ROI
Solar powered?
Lighting and computer vision 
Future of farm robots
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The Carbon Robotics self-driving farm bot kills weeds with lasers: 8 150-watt lasers, to be precise. That’s pretty cool, but much cooler is that no toxic herbicides are required.
That’s safer for the farmer, better for the soil, and produces better crops.
In this episode of TechFirst, we check out the robot, talk to the CEO of Carbon Robotics Paul Mikesell, and see the results on the fields.
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