{"id":1206983,"date":"2023-11-28T18:09:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1206983"},"modified":"2023-11-28T18:09:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:24","slug":"mother-plucker-steel-fingers-guided-by-ai-pluck-weeds-rapidly-and-autonomously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1206983","title":{"rendered":"Mother plucker: Steel fingers guided by AI pluck weeds rapidly and autonomously"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> The Ekobot autonomous weeding robot roving around an onion field in Sweden. (credit: Ekobot AB)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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Anybody who has pulled weeds in a garden knows that it’s a tedious task. Scale it up to farm-sized jobs, and it becomes a nightmare. The most efficient industrial alternative, herbicides<\/a>, have potentially devastating side effects for people, animals, and the environment<\/a>. So a Swedish company named Ekobot AB<\/a> has introduced a wheeled robot that can autonomously recognize and pluck weeds from the ground rapidly using metal fingers.<\/p>\n

The four-wheeled Ekobot WEAI robot<\/a> is battery-powered and can operate 10\u201312 hours a day on one charge. It weighs 600 kg (about 1322 pounds) and has a top speed of 5 km\/h (2.5 mph). It’s tuned for weeding fields full of onions, beetroots, carrots, or similar vegetables, and it can cover about 10 hectares (about 24.7 acres) in a day. It navigates using GPS RTK<\/a> and contains safety sensors and vision systems to prevent it from unintentionally bumping into objects or people.<\/p>\n

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