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Ultimately drones may enable purely-mechanical pesticide-free removal of each individual insect/weed.

• vimax 2y ago
  Reminds me of the mosquito laser. It would target only female mosquitos of the specific breed (they are the malaria carriers). It was only prototyped and never commercially produced. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser
  • redundantly 2y ago
    > It was only prototyped and never commercially produced. aka Vaporware
    • tomrod 2y ago
      Indeed. These are often predictable outcomes when there is lack in economy of scale or scope.
  • russell_h 2y ago
    I saw a video where this company is doing exactly that for weeds: https://youtube.com/watch?v=V3A6L2Dao6s https://youtube.com/watch?v=V3A6L2Dao6s Great idea, I hope it works.
• givemeethekeys 2y ago
  For weeds, this is already a thing. There are weed bots that kill with fire and others that kill with lasers.