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In the near future, robot farm vehicles will pick weeds, too

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For all the talk about self-driving cars taking over our roads and literally relegating human drivers to the back seat, it’s in the ancient practice of agriculture where autonomous, artificial intelligence vehicles seem destined to go into service first. The latest evidence? Weed-killing robots.

For all the talk about self-driving cars taking over our roads and literally relegating human drivers to the back seat, it’s in the ancient practice of agriculture where autonomous, artificial intelligence vehicles seem destined to go into service first. The latest evidence? Weed-killing robots.

A French company called Na Technologies has developed three different robot electric vehicles capable of removing weeds from row crops, tackling the two-headed farming quagmires of high costs for removing weeds and persistent shortages of laborers willing to actually do it. And it’s coming to the U.S. In addition to having around 150 robots in use in Canada, Europe and Japan, Na has begun testing its autonomous weeders at 15 different commercial farms in California, Modern Farmer reports. The company last month said it had raised €14 million (about $15.29 million), which it’s using in part to push into the U.S. market.

Our weeding robots respect both the environment and man, spokeswoman Anouck Lefebvre tells Modern Farmer. They provide a solution to tackle farmworker shortages, reduce the strenuous physical workload of hand weeding, and limit the use of chemical weed killers.

See full article at Yahoo News

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