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reidlos1624 t1_itilw6o wrote

Reply to comment by Cryp71c in This new farming robot uses lasers to kill 200,000 weeds per hour by GonjaNinja420

Speed has doubled in a year, my guess is speed will likely continue to increase.

Better than herbicides that poison us and the environment.

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wwj t1_itjiepj wrote

Maybe, they really just increased the size of the unit. There will be a limit to that width and it's probably cost. The cost of lasers per foot of width is much higher than spray booms.

Having worked in farming and with cutting lasers, my take is that this could work but in limited applications in relatively small vegetable/fruit crop fields where equipment size is constrained by the landscape.

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