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Re:Self-Driving Farm Robot Uses Lasers to Kill 100k Weeds an... by tuatoru on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @08:38PM (#29102402)
... and spraying herbicides can kill millions per hour for much lower capital cost.
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Re:Self-Driving Farm Robot Uses Lasers to Kill 100k Weeds an... by aussiegreenie on Thursday November 04, 2021 @08:17PM (#29114043)
Spraying herbicide is very expensive and getting more expensive every day. Killing weeds with heat using a laser or steam is very new and will reduce in price moving forward.

My guess is in Europe it is very close in price and the robots costs will only reduce.

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Re:Self-Driving Farm Robot Uses Lasers to Kill 100k Weeds an... by altspace on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @10:42PM (#29103136)
But then you have to eat those chemicals
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