Monsanto enters the room with a cease and desist letter
Actually, it's "Bayer" now. Monsanto merged with Bayer a few years back and has since dropped the name "Monsanto" because everyone hates Monsanto.
Looks cools as hell but expensive as hell to. https://carbonrobotics.com/
Can I get this in an autonomous drone?
How soon before jews turn it on humans?
Funny, I was thinking of a bigger version of this that targeted sub-human bipeds. The laser would have an easy time due to their greater absorption of light.
Lol, a much better use indeed. I was thinking low fly’n aircraft could be used.
We could be doing great things with technology, but the Big Club will ensure that technology is only used to accomplish evil.
Can it be programmed to avoid specific bugs? I’m no farmer, but would expect that there are some you definitely want
It's only a weeder - not bugs. thats what i assumed too until i checked out the site.
This machine is anti-semitic.
Lasers ftw
Decent!
Seems inefficient.
A sprayed chemical will stick to the plants and keep bugs away for quite a while. It's not great, to be sure, but it's very efficient for bug-free crops.
In this case, it's just targeting specific bugs, and leaving their partially burned carcasses behind. That will no doubt attract more bugs and now birds. And on top of that, this system needs to run again as soon as it's finished, in order to get the new bugs. And so on.
I like the innovation, but this is not a viable solution.
Nope, it's only an expensive weeder. Uses AI to identify and target 'organic meristems' aka weeds..
If a whole field could be done at once, then it might work very well, especially for the middle regions of a field. With this tractor method, a bug might move out of the way unintentionally and still survive in the field. Perhaps with each pass the field would get less and less bug-filled, though.
Super expensive to buy and maintain, it's more a proof of concept but an interesting one for sure.
No wonder the field is so big - it has to have running tracks on both sides of each row. Lol.
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