Self-driving farmbot kills 100,000 weeds/hour by laser: no herbicide!

<p>The Carbon Robotics self-driving farm bot kills weeds with lasers: 8 150-watt lasers, to be precise. That’s pretty cool, but much cooler is that no toxic herbicides are required.</p> <p>That’s safer for the farmer, better for the soil, and produces better crops.</p> <p>In this episode of TechFirst, we check out the robot, talk to the CEO of Carbon Robotics Paul Mikesell, and see the results on the fields.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Links:</p> <p>Carbon Robotics: https://carbonrobotics.com/</p> <p>Support TechFirst with $SMRT coins: https://rally.io/creator/SMRT/</p> <p>Buy $SMRT to join a community focused on tech for good: the emerging world of smart matter. Access my private Slack, get your name in my book, suggest speakers for TechFirst ... and support my work.</p> <p><br></p> <p>TechFirst transcripts: https://johnkoetsier.com/category/tech-first/</p> <p><br></p> <p>Forbes columns: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/&nbsp;</p> <p>Subscribe to the podcast: https://anchor.fm/techfirst&nbsp;</p> <p>Full videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/johnkoetsier?sub_confirmation=1&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p>Keep in touch: https://twitter.com/johnkoetsier&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p>0:00 Laser-powered weed killer</p> <p>0:47 AI, computer vision, robotics</p> <p>1:48 Herbicides and weeds</p> <p>3:50 Health impact and food quality</p> <p>5:42 Robots with lasers</p> <p>8:18 How it works</p> <p>12:13 Autonomous driving</p> <p>13:08 Speed and ROI</p> <p>15:11 Solar powered?</p> <p>17:31 Lighting and computer vision&nbsp;</p> <p>21:21 Future of farm robots</p>