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There's another company called Carbon Robotics that uses lasers instead of weedkiller. The attachment they built needed a custom cooling rig to deal with the d
by lchengify 4y ago
There's another company called Carbon Robotics that uses lasers instead of weedkiller.
The attachment they built needed a custom cooling rig to deal with the dozens of lasers. Super interesting engineering going on with agtech.
https://www.freethink.com/robots-ai/farming-robot https://www.freethink.com/robots-ai/farming-robot
- chris_va 4y agoHm, why lasers? Seems like a phased array microwave would be cheaper, require no moving parts, and be able to target the root system ... and be less of a safety risk.
- moffkalast 4y agoI suspect the precision wouldn't be high enough, resulting in a lot of dead produce?