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
(Excerpt) Read more at newatlas.com ...
Wonder if they have one that can be adapted to weed out Progressives?
That's racist!
I was expecting RoundUp, but you’re serious about this!
But yes, a 4 ton plus vehicle is pretty weighty for sure.
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...)
But yes, a 4 ton plus vehicle is pretty weighty for sure.
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Even more exciting to use after heavy rains ...
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.
—”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!
"There! We have taken out those dandelions....and the Petersons!"
That is a shame about the Petersons!
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