Robots Shooting Jets Of Pesticides Could Cut Back On How Much Weedkiller We Use
“Not even a gardening-obsessed grandpa wielding two bottles of weedkiller could compete with this Swiss weeding robot. Produced out of ecoRobotics, the four-legged machine rolls around crop fields, identifying weeds and targeting them with precise jets of herbicide, reports Reuters.
The system uses way less pesticide than most application systems do now. If the bot is popular when it hits the market in 2019, it could mark a big change in how much pesticide farmers buy (and use) from agriculture companies….”
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