Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers

Re:Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers by gdubs on Monday April 26, 2021 @10:59AM (#26943187)

Tractors break, sure, but steel implements have been doing a pretty good job of handling rocky soil for a very long time.

Fixing a blue steel corkscrew seems easier than debugging a laser.

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Re:Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers by Broken_Hippo on Monday April 26, 2021 @03:30PM (#26946914)

I very highly doubt that a farmer is generally going to debug a laser on the spot. That requires a skill set not really needed to be a farmer, and who knows how long it'll take.

Realistically, a farmer would swap out the part.

Any actual work on the laser is more likely to be done by a trained professional, if anything to cut down on accidental burns.

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