I saw this at FIRA last week. Very impressive, 90% weed elimination. The two main problems are it is expensive and lasers are effective when plants are small and very little coverage by crop. Nexus Robotics had a mechanical weed picking robot that has a longer efficacy period. Carbon Robotics is about 1 million per robot Nexus about 50k per season. For the Nexus you might have to follow manually to get to 90+% elimination
dustractedredzorg t1_itpqtud wrote
Reply to This new farming robot uses lasers to kill 200,000 weeds per hour by diacewrb
I saw this at FIRA last week. Very impressive, 90% weed elimination. The two main problems are it is expensive and lasers are effective when plants are small and very little coverage by crop. Nexus Robotics had a mechanical weed picking robot that has a longer efficacy period. Carbon Robotics is about 1 million per robot Nexus about 50k per season. For the Nexus you might have to follow manually to get to 90+% elimination