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.
(post is archived)