[the_only_law]

> I would love to be wrong though, garden robots would be great, especially if they had lasers for slugs

I’ve had a similar idea before, for roaches, but I’m just not sure how it could work. Surely any laser with enough power output to kill something would cause a decent amount of collateral as well?

[hutzlibu]

Which is the problem with they mosquito shooting turret, as well.

I hate mosquitos as much as slugs - but I do not like people to loose their eyesight over it.

There would have to be many reliable savety mechanism, before this can become a thing.

Otherwise I will have trained one, to target ticks as well.

[saalweachter]

You could make them pack hunters, with the expectation that 8-12 separate slug/roach lasers would end up focused on a target slug at a time.

That way you'd be performing target recognition from multiple angles and mis-classifications would tend to only result in the not-slug being hit with 10-20% power.