Weed-Killing Robot Could Put Giant Dent in Herbicide Use

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Weed-Killing Robot Could Put Giant Dent in Herbicide Use

Blue River’s weed killing robot could change that industry practice and reduce herbicide use in the U.S. by more than 250 million pounds a year. The wheeled robot starts its job by scanning the ground with cameras. It then uses algorithms, to differentiate between good and bad plants. Once it finds a bad one (re: a weed), it injects it with enough fertilizer to kill it. The technology is about 98 or 99 percent accurate.

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