Robo - weeder

[Overby]

Farming robot kills 200,000 weeds per hour with lasers

Carbon Robotics’ LaserWeeder is a smart farming robot that identifies weeds and then kills them using high-power lasers.

www.freethink.com

The future?

 

[Steevo]

Looks good, but might take a while......15-20ac a day I assume is a spot rate which means means that it would probably only manage 100ac a week in "normal" fields. Would need several robots per farm on that basis. Not much chance of resistance developing though......and on top of that you could probably keep going back through the crop multiple times too a bit like @Muddyroads and his weeding machine.

 

[Muddyroads]

It’s the way to go I’m sure, but needs to be affordable.

 

[robs1]

It’s the way to go I’m sure, but needs to be affordable.

Im sure in time the price will come down, would certainly answer a lot of problems

 

[Luke Cropwalker]

This type of tech has huge potential I see it more as a back to a normal or slightly reduced herbicide programme where the robot is mopping up any weeds that have developed herbicide resistance.

 

[Breakthru]

Personally I think where you have wide row spacings then there is a place for band spraying. Inter row cults or spray and then Agchems only on the crop.
If you look at the numbers it is very attractive financially.

 

[renewablejohn]

Dont understand why anyone is still messing around with weeds. Glasshouses have been weed free for years and the same technology can be used at a field scale.