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.

That’s safer for the farmer, better for the soil, and produces better crops.

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.

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Carbon Robotics: https://carbonrobotics.com/

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0:00 Laser-powered weed killer

0:47 AI, computer vision, robotics

1:48 Herbicides and weeds

3:50 Health impact and food quality

5:42 Robots with lasers

8:18 How it works

12:13 Autonomous driving

13:08 Speed and ROI

15:11 Solar powered?

17:31 Lighting and computer vision 

21:21 Future of farm robots