{"id":122010,"date":"2021-04-26T22:22:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T05:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/farming-robot-kills-100000-weeds-per-hour-with-lasers"},"modified":"2021-04-26T22:22:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T05:22:16","slug":"farming-robot-kills-100000-weeds-per-hour-with-lasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/farming-robot-kills-100000-weeds-per-hour-with-lasers","title":{"rendered":"Farming Robot Kills 100,000 Weeds per Hour With Lasers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/farming-robot-kills-100000-weeds-per-hour-with-lasers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A person can weed about one acre of crops a day. This smart robot can weed 20.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Carbon Robotics has <a href=https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20210413005415\/en\/Carbon-Robotics-Disrupts-Farming-Industry-with-Autonomous-Weeders rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=_blank>unveiled<\/a> the third-generation of its Autonomous Weeder, a smart farming robot that identifies weeds and then destroys them with high-power lasers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The weedkiller challenge:<\/strong> Weeds compete with plants for space, sunlight, and soil nutrients. They can also make it easier for insect pests to harm crops, so <a href=https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/articles\/death-ray-for-weeds>weed control<\/a> is a top concern for farmers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/invasives\/stafftrainingmodule\/methods\/chemical\/impacts.html#part3 rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=_blank>Chemical herbicides<\/a> can kill the pesky plants, but they can also contaminate water and affect soil health. Weeds can be pulled out by hand, but it\u2019s unpleasant work, and <a href=https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/02\/us\/coronavirus-undocumented-immigrant-farmworkers-agriculture.html rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=_blank>labor shortages<\/a> are already a huge problem in the agriculture industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A person can weed about one acre of crops a day. This smart robot can weed 20. Carbon Robotics has unveiled the third-generation of its Autonomous Weeder, a smart farming robot that identifies weeds and then destroys them with high-power lasers. The weedkiller challenge: Weeds compete with plants for space, sunlight, and soil nutrients. They [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1506,1495,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-food","category-health","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}