{"id":157861,"date":"2023-02-13T02:23:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T08:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/farming-robot-kills-200000-weeds-per-hour-with-lasers"},"modified":"2023-02-13T02:23:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T08:23:26","slug":"farming-robot-kills-200000-weeds-per-hour-with-lasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/farming-robot-kills-200000-weeds-per-hour-with-lasers","title":{"rendered":"Farming robot kills 200,000 weeds per hour with lasers"},"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\/fK3AQgt47z4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Carbon Robotics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20210413005415\/en\/Carbon-Robotics-Disrupts-Farming-Industry-with-Autonomous-Weeders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">unveiled<\/a> the third-generation of its Autonomous Weeder, a smart farming robot that identifies weeds and then destroys them with high-power lasers. The company now has taken the technology from that robot and built a pull-behind <a href=\"https:\/\/carbonrobotics.com\/news\/carbon-robotics-unveils-new-laserweeder-with-30-lasers-to-autonomously-eradicate-weeds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LaserWeeder <\/a>\u2014 and it kills twice as many weeds.<\/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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">labor shortages<\/a> are already a huge problem in the agriculture industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021, Carbon Robotics unveiled the third-generation of its Autonomous Weeder, a smart farming robot that identifies weeds and then destroys them with high-power lasers. The company now has taken the technology from that robot and built a pull-behind LaserWeeder \u2014 and it kills twice as many weeds. The weedkiller challenge: Weeds compete with plants [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":687,"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-157861","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\/157861","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\/687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}