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Mother plucker: Steel fingers guided by AI pluck weeds rapidly and autonomously

Enlarge / The Ekobot autonomous weeding robot roving around an onion field in Sweden. reader comments 74 with Anybody who has pulled weeds in a garden knows that it’s a tedious task. Scale it up to farm-sized jobs, and it becomes a nightmare. The most efficient industrial alternative, herbicides, have potentially devastating side effects for… Read More »