Mother plucker: Steel fingers guided by AI pluck weeds rapidly and autonomously
Mother plucker: Steel fingers guided by AI pluck weeds rapidly and autonomously
Robot that uses AI to pull weeds may reduce poisonous herbicide use by 70%.
This looks like a truly good use for AI.
I hope they don't scale it up to pluck the ingredients for soylent green.
I wonder if consent makes any difference there. Would that be vegan?
Just give it a decade or two.
Wonder how much WaaS (Weeding as a Service) is going to cost.
Looks cool and probably really useful, but I don't know how much sustainable future relies on Monocultures, because of loose of biodiversity, soil etc you know the drill.
Maybe it could deal with multiple crops grown together eventually.
Oh, it pushed a rabbit back into earth unintentionally.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
So a Swedish company named Ekobot AB has introduced a wheeled robot that can autonomously recognize and pluck weeds from the ground rapidly using metal fingers.
It's tuned for weeding fields full of onions, beetroots, carrots, or similar vegetables, and it can cover about 10 hectares (about 24.7 acres) in a day.
It navigates using GPS RTK and contains safety sensors and vision systems to prevent it from unintentionally bumping into objects or people.
To pinpoint plants it needs to pluck, the Ekobot uses an AI-powered machine vision system trained to identify weeds as it rolls above the farm field.
Two years ago, Ekobot announced a collaboration with Swedish telecom company Telia that led to the integration of 5G mobile technology into the robot, which lets it communicate remotely with a central server to share collected learning data from anywhere in a farm field.
When coupled with research on lasers that zap pests in flight, AI may help pave the way for a more sustainable and environmentally friendly farming system if widely adopted.
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