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I 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. 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…
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"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.
74-hp Cummins diesel QSF2.8
4 hydraulic drive motors
75-gallon fuel capacity
I 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…
>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 hitch That doesn't seem odd to me at all. The whole point of this thing is to let it run all day killing weeds while you do other stuff . The fact it only has a max of 5mph (and likely significantly slower when there are actual weeds to kill) means you would spend all day…
There's a lot of automated tractors now
I 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.
Lasers are notoriously inefficient, CO2 ones are in the 5-20% range.
So probably at least 1000W for the lasers, assuming 10% efficiency.
Given where ML and CV are today, I'd bet on open source models trained on weeds within 3-5 years. This company can scale, but their unit price is going to plummet. Also, it sounds like they're using cameras, where it's concievable that other future sensors could be more efficient. An iteration of this with higher resolution cameras and small flying drones seems like an intuitive next step. This is a super interesting…