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Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers
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Re: Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers
#32I want to see details on power source and energy usage. That's where I'm a bit skeptical. To do the 20 acres they're talking about you'd need one hell of a huge battery, assuming it's electric. Even just to move the thing. Then add power draw for the laser on as well. Also seems odd to have it be something that is self-powered and autonomous rather than just something you pull behind a tractor on the three point hitc…
"I want to see details on power source and energy usage. That's where I'm a bit skeptical." Meh. Worse case you could even have a wire.
Hell, you could probably stick a fuel tank and a generator on it if you had to.
Re: Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers
#33I want to see details on power source and energy usage. That's where I'm a bit skeptical. To do the 20 acres they're talking about you'd need one hell of a huge battery, assuming it's electric. Even just to move the thing. Then add power draw for the laser on as well. Also seems odd to have it be something that is self-powered and autonomous rather than just something you pull behind a tractor on the three point hitc…
"74-hp Cummins diesel QSF2.8"
Re: Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The uploader has not made this video available in your country.
It's a vignette from an episode of Silicon Valley , in which one of the characters demonstrates an "awesome" app that can identify a hot dog, from the phone camera. It does this well. Unfortunately, the hot dog is the only thing that it can positively identify. Everything else is "Not A Hot Dog."
There's a really good writeup of how the app in the show was created:
https://medium.com/@timanglade/how-hbos-silicon-valley-built...
Re: Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers
#35I want to see details on power source and energy usage. That's where I'm a bit skeptical. To do the 20 acres they're talking about you'd need one hell of a huge battery, assuming it's electric. Even just to move the thing. Then add power draw for the laser on as well. Also seems odd to have it be something that is self-powered and autonomous rather than just something you pull behind a tractor on the three point hitc…
https://carbonrobotics.com/features
Lasers are 150 watts, so a small fraction of the power draw.
Seems like getting the automation is key, replacing herbicides would require multiple passes over the same ground.
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Re: Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers
#37I want to see details on power source and energy usage. That's where I'm a bit skeptical. To do the 20 acres they're talking about you'd need one hell of a huge battery, assuming it's electric. Even just to move the thing. Then add power draw for the laser on as well. Also seems odd to have it be something that is self-powered and autonomous rather than just something you pull behind a tractor on the three point hitc…
Oh it's for sure an energy hog and the 20 acres is marketing.
Super interesting especially think of it as in its infancy. Also would be interested to see how the real world results are. I'm guessing it can laser all life but I would be curious to see how well the algorithm worked with protecting certain species.
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#38"It's harder to find people to do that work every single year"
Translation: The wages we pay are crap and we're not going to pay them more.
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#39It will be the norm on Mars
finally, we can solve the Mars weed problem
Re: Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers
#40I want to see details on power source and energy usage. That's where I'm a bit skeptical. To do the 20 acres they're talking about you'd need one hell of a huge battery, assuming it's electric. Even just to move the thing. Then add power draw for the laser on as well. Also seems odd to have it be something that is self-powered and autonomous rather than just something you pull behind a tractor on the three point hitc…
The video looks like a mix of cgi graphics with unrelated real videos, so I guess they don't have a real machine yet.