If your garden got weeds, killer robot with lasers doesn't usually come to mind as a solution but that's exactly what Carbon Robotics offered for future farmers.
Behold the Autonomous Weeder, a smart farming robot that lets farmers get rid of weed from their farm lands without the use of herbicide. The robot scans the ground with its 12 cameras as it drives down rows of crops. An onboard AI analyzes the images and once it identifies weeds, it directs the robot's carbon dioxide lasers to zap and kill them.
While not having to use ecologically harmful herbicide is great, the bonus here is that the autonomous robot can eliminate more than 100,000 weeds per hour and can weed 15 to 20 acres of crops per day (it can even work at night), compared to a farm laborer who could only weed about 1 acre in a day.
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via Technabob