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Not a drone yet, but hey, less than 200kg are pretty much flyweight in farming ;) https://dahliarobotics.com/video

It doesn't even need to use herbicides because it removes weeds mechanically. We actually build it to also fit into Europe's small(er) scale farms as well.

Regarding the energy issues mentioned multiple times in various threads here: We managed to make it solar powered and battery buffered to work autonomously for more than a working day.

Disclosure: Co-funder of the company

"As of June 2021, China has a total nuclear power generation capacity of 49.6 GW from 50 reactors, with additional 17.1 GW under construction" (1)

Fair enough, I have not checked whether those are the previously mentioned lwrs, but I would argue that those numbers are definitely "scale"

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_China

Sorry, I should probably add that the worm number also very heavily depends on the kind of ground you have on your fields. In case that is not apparent from the slides ;-)

I don't know the numbers for the UK but here [1] are some numbers for Bavaria with worm counts from a lot of monitoring spots starting in the 80s. (sorry, slides are in German)

In the conclusion the author says a connection to the tilling method is likely. (worm numbers in Bavaria actually have increased as more and more farmers have changed away from "full" tilling).

[1] https://www.lfu.bayern.de/boden/bodendauerbeobachtung/fachta...

See here for all the tradeoffs involved in current brain imaging technology: https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html

Long story short, if you want a real time interface that also has high spatial resolution, you need to get invasive (and increase the number of electrodes by a lot)