Autonomous weeding robot using AI vision to detect weeds among young crops and eliminates them instantly with targeted high-precision laser pulses. Real-time on board GPUs map every plant position and directs lasers precisely at weeds Carbon Robotics

@carbon_robotics Finally some more real world examples of AI applications.

@carbon_robotics It sorta looks like the tractor is driving on top of a portion of the crops?

@carbon_robotics Neat. Now do the cost per acre compared to glyphosate.

@carbon_robotics But its like literally crushing the plants?

@carbon_robotics Search engines are easy until ranking bugs meet product politics. Hybrid search still needs boring evals, not just Rust speed.

@carbon_robotics Sci-fi gave us robot wars and AI overlords. Nobody wrote about autonomous weeders with targeted lasers. The boring applications are where the real value always was.

@carbon_robotics Can they get rid of mature weeds in later stages? So, is this sustainable?

@carbon_robotics Smart robots in agriculture are amazing! But I want to know: how high is the accuracy and success rate of using AI vision to identify weeds?

@carbon_robotics The demo is cool, but field reliability is the whole product. AI vision is cheap if dust, rain, and support tickets break it.

@carbon_robotics Edge AI in action—love seeing it out in the field. Curious, at what latency does laser accuracy start to drop? And how do they tackle different lighting or crop types?

@carbon_robotics honestly, laser weeding in crops. Our sim would stress-test that precision. 🔥