{"id":123684,"date":"2021-06-11T09:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T16:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/new-agricultural-robots-kill-individual-weeds-with-electricity"},"modified":"2021-06-11T09:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T16:22:38","slug":"new-agricultural-robots-kill-individual-weeds-with-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/new-agricultural-robots-kill-individual-weeds-with-electricity","title":{"rendered":"New agricultural robots kill individual weeds with electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZdcgvreJLqk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Using the full system, farmers could reduce costs by 40% and chemical usage by up to 95%.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Small Robot Company (SRC), a British agritech startup for sustainable farming, has developed AI-enabled robots \u2013 named Tom, Dick and Harry \u2013 that identify and kill individual weeds with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/tag\/electricity\/\">electricity<\/a>. These agricultural robots could reduce the use of harmful chemicals and heavy machinery, paving the way for a new approach to sustainable crop farming.<\/p>\n<p>The startup has been working on automated weed killers since 2017, and this April officially launched Tom, the first commercial robot currently operating on three UK farms. Dick is still in the prototype phase, and Harry is still in development.<\/p>\n<p>Small Robot company says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/weed-mapping-robot-tom-tested-get-rid-unwanted-plants\/10624\/\">the robot Tom<\/a> is capable of scanning around 20 Hectares per day, collecting about six terabytes of data in an 8-hour shift to identify the crops, spots undesirable weeds \u2013 using \u201cWilma,\u201d an artificial intelligence operating system. This data can then be sent to Dick \u2013 the world\u2019s first non-chemical robotic weeding system that zaps individual weeds with electrical \u2018lightning strikes.\u2019 And finally, Harry plants seeds in the weed-free soil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using the full system, farmers could reduce costs by 40% and chemical usage by up to 95%. Small Robot Company (SRC), a British agritech startup for sustainable farming, has developed AI-enabled robots \u2013 named Tom, Dick and Harry \u2013 that identify and kill individual weeds with electricity. These agricultural robots could reduce the use of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,493,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-climatology","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123684","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}