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Fantastic work Taylor! A few years ago I was hoping someone would create something like this. Glad to see it becoming a reality!! Taylor, I was just wonderin
by blahblah1234567 4y ago
Fantastic work Taylor! A few years ago I was hoping someone would create something like this. Glad to see it becoming a reality!!
Taylor, I was just wondering-- Is it feasible to use lasers for killing weeds while retaining relatively light weight robot? (Wasn't sure if this would require prohibitively heavy batteries)
Here are some other interesting farm robots--
- Six farm robot models-- created by folks at the University of Sydney, Australia
https://confluence.acfr.usyd.edu.au/display/agpub/our+robots https://confluence.acfr.usyd.edu.au/display/agpub/our+robots
- Carbon Robotics' "Laser Weeder"
https://carbonrobotics.com/autonomous-weeder https://carbonrobotics.com/autonomous-weeder
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoThank you! I’ve not done the calculations but our solar system is 800 watts continuous output in full sun. We have supercapacitors that can deliver several kilowatts in short bursts. I’d suspect that it’s perfectly possible to run a suitably powerful laser off of that. I’ve got a laser cutter at home that draws 40 watts of power and cuts through heavy denim fabric, so that would definitely kill a weed! I suppose this means we could continuously run ten such lasers while also leaving overhead for the drive system and compute.
- Super_Jambo 4y agoAre you sure it draws 40w or outputs 40w? I'd have thought to cut denim you'd need a laser outputting 40w?
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoIt’s 10 watts optical power, 40 watts electrical power. This is the laser and it works great for cutting fabric, though thick white fabric is most difficult to cut and I have to move it pretty slowly. https://youtu.be/QrtGMzzSWDo https://youtu.be/QrtGMzzSWDo https://a.aliexpress.com/_mLyQn54 https://a.aliexpress.com/_mLyQn54