[frv103]

This seems like kind of a fluff piece, I don’t see any details about the actual technology. The whole article is about how proud the company is to be partnering with midwestern farmers. Can anyone provide a link or more information about how they are able to distinguish weed from crops, and by what mechanical process the weeds are removed?

[rohan_shah]

Will share links once I find them.

But the technology is: A library of weed images is used to check if the thing visual to the camera is a weed. If it is, then pluck it or spray chemicals (here: pluck).If not, move on.

[XMPPwocky]

Isn't this creating huge selection pressure for weird-looking weeds?

[greatpatton]

I don't know about them but here we have a small company (founded 2012) in Switzerland doing the same (but with something less bulky...): https://www.ecorobotix.com/en/autonomous-robot-weeder/

[siavosh]

Same I can’t find any details on the mechanical mechanism they remove the weeds with. That seems like as much if not bigger challenge than identifying the weeds.

[rohan_shah]

I don't think the mechanical mechanism is that hard.

Once they detect a weed ahead, they could just lower a small plough-like thing in worst case scenario. Or a pinch could go down, grab the weed and go up.

But yes, they seem be secretive about the working.

[crsv]

This was marketing content, all the pull quotes are from investors and senior leadership. This was a marketing piece, nothing more.