{"id":160044,"date":"2023-03-11T13:24:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T19:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/ai-powered-robots-cut-out-weeds-while-leaving-crops-untouched"},"modified":"2023-03-11T13:24:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T19:24:41","slug":"ai-powered-robots-cut-out-weeds-while-leaving-crops-untouched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/ai-powered-robots-cut-out-weeds-while-leaving-crops-untouched","title":{"rendered":"AI-powered robots cut out weeds while leaving crops untouched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-powered-robots-cut-out-weeds-while-leaving-crops-untouched2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The machines could help to \u201cdrastically increase the efficiency of the farming industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In farming, weeds can strangle crops and destroy yields. Unfortunately, spraying herbicides to deal with the intrusive plants pollutes the environment and harms human health and there simply aren\u2019t enough workers to tackle all the weeds by hand.<\/p>\n<p>A new startup called FarmWise has come up with a solution: autonomous weeding robots that use artificial intelligence to cut out weeds while leaving crops untouched, according to an MIT report published on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The machines could help to \u201cdrastically increase the efficiency of the farming industry.\u201d In farming, weeds can strangle crops and destroy yields. Unfortunately, spraying herbicides to deal with the intrusive plants pollutes the environment and harms human health and there simply aren\u2019t enough workers to tackle all the weeds by hand. A new startup called [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,1495,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-health","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160044","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}