[weweweoo]

Seems like a cool project, but not something I would pay thousands of dollars for as a hobbyist gardener. By the looks of it, might work for smaller plants, but not much use in growing larger varieties of tomato or cucumber for example.

Really the only thing I would trust and want to automate is watering when I'm away, and that can be done much cheaper. The most burdensome part right now in my greenhouse is actually keeping the large plants in check, prevent them from growing too much by taking away right leaves/branches. The robot probably wouldn't do too much to help with that. Weeds are a problem outside, but that's way too large of an area to cover with this kind of robots.

[john_minsk]

Interesting. A while ago I heard about a project to use laser with AI to grow salmon and protect from parasites[1]

Would it be a terrible idea to destroy weeds with laser shots? Or crops don't provide enough margin for such advance tech?

1. https://www.stingray.no/delousing-with-laser/?lang=en