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Autonomous Weeder robot uses lasers to take out 100,000 plants an hour
Nwes Atlas ^ | 26 april 2021 | Nick Lavars

Posted on 04/27/2021 6:18:19 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

Whether you're a farmer tending to expansive crops that you depend on for your livelihood or a hobbyist gardener trying to keep your tomatoes in check, weeds can be a time-consuming and relentless problem. Startup Carbon Robotics has wheeled out an autonomous machine that has these pesky plants in its cross hairs, using a combination of computer vision and high-powered lasers to comb fields and take out thousands of weeds an hour.

Carbon Robotics has built a 9,500-lb (4,300-kg), four-wheeled robot that uses GPS and computer vision to trundle through crops on the lookout for weeds. It relies on an onboard supercomputer and high-resolution cameras to identify unwanted plants, and then eight simultaneously operating 150-W lasers to kill them off with thermal energy by targeting their meristems, at a rate of more than 100,000 weeds an hour

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Gardening
KEYWORDS: laser; robot; weeds
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Wonder if they have one that can be adapted to weed out Progressives?


21 posted on 04/27/2021 8:15:24 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Corrupt Slow Joe Biden is the Bolshevik sock puppet.)
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To: oldasrocks
I’d rather have one that could take out the ticks and chiggers here.

That's racist!

22 posted on 04/27/2021 8:17:30 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I was expecting RoundUp, but you’re serious about this!

But yes, a 4 ton plus vehicle is pretty weighty for sure.


23 posted on 04/27/2021 8:20:00 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

24 posted on 04/27/2021 8:57:08 PM PDT by jonrick46 ( Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Weeder Robots are Ray-ciss!!

And anybody who said, “Huh?” is also Ray-ciss!!

In fact, all people of one certain color are Ray-ciss!!

Especially people who think this is veering off-topic, you Ray-ciss, you!!

The only people who aren’t Ray-ciss!! are people who run around screeching that everyone and everything is Ray—ciss!!

(So, where can I get me one of them Ray-ciss weed zappers? On the lowdown, you know...)


25 posted on 04/27/2021 9:12:06 PM PDT by _longranger81 (God help us, Every One. )
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26 posted on 04/28/2021 1:52:06 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: FreedomPoster

But yes, a 4 ton plus vehicle is pretty weighty for sure.


Even more exciting to use after heavy rains ...


27 posted on 04/28/2021 4:30:01 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Imagine being a farmer and you trip in front of the Weed Terminator.
ZAP! ZAP! ZAP!

Maybe a group of Weed Terminators go rogue and start zapping people as weeds. Could happen.


28 posted on 04/28/2021 6:17:47 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: minnesota_bound

—”Could happen.”

Most assuredly.

And more so after the EPA mandates all-electric/ no diesel.
Farmhands entangled in the miles of extension cord then weeded out!


29 posted on 04/28/2021 6:31:14 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

"There! We have taken out those dandelions....and the Petersons!"

30 posted on 04/28/2021 8:58:13 AM PDT by The MAGA-Deplorian (Democrats are lawless because Republicans are ball-less)
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To: The MAGA-Deplorian

That is a shame about the Petersons!


31 posted on 04/28/2021 9:52:07 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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