Mother plucker: Steel fingers guided by AI pluck weeds rapidly and autonomously

Ars Technica
By Benj EdwardsNov 28, 2023, 6:09 pm146 pts
Enlarge / The Ekobot autonomous weeding robot roving around an onion field in Sweden. (credit: Ekobot AB) Anybody who has pulled weeds in a garden knows that it's a tedious task. Scale it up to farm-sized jobs, and it becomes a nightmare. The most efficient industrial alternative, herbicides, have potentially…

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