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AI-Powered + Chemical Free + Improved Soil Health
WHAT IS LASERWEEDING?
Laserweeding is precision weed control for commercial farming.
Laserweeding kills weeds at the meristem before they compete for precious resources.
Crops grow healthier when they aren’t fighting weeds for water, nutrients, and sunlight.
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WHY LASERS?
INCREASED CROP YIELD AND QUALITY
Lasers leave the soil microbiology undisturbed, unlike tillage. The lack of herbicides and soil disruption paves the way for a regenerative approach, which leads to healthy crops and higher yields.
OVERALL COST REDUCTION
Automated robots enable farmers to reduce the highly variable cost of manual labor as well as reduce the use of crop inputs such as herbicides and fertilizers. Labor is often farmers’ biggest cost and crop inputs account for 28.2% of their total expenses. Reducing costs in both these areas is a huge benefit.
REGENERATIVE FARMING PRACTICES
Traditional chemicals used by farmers, such as herbicides, deteriorate soil health and are tied to health problems in humans and other mammals. A laser-powered, autonomous weed management solution reduces or eliminates farmers’ need for herbicides.
ECONOMICAL PATH TO ORGANIC FARMING
One of the largest obstacles to organic farming is cost-effective weed control. A solution to weed management that doesn’t require herbicides or an increase in manual labor provides farmers with a more realistic path to classifying their crops as organic.
INCREASED CROP YIELD AND QUALITY
Lasers leave the soil microbiology undisturbed, unlike tillage. The lack of herbicides and soil disruption paves the way for a regenerative approach, which leads to healthy crops and higher yields.
OVERALL COST REDUCTION
Automated robots enable farmers to reduce the highly variable cost of manual labor as well as reduce the use of crop inputs such as herbicides and fertilizers. Labor is often farmers’ biggest cost and crop inputs account for 28.2% of their total expenses. Reducing costs in both these areas is a huge benefit.
REGENERATIVE FARMING PRACTICES
Traditional chemicals used by farmers, such as herbicides, deteriorate soil health and are tied to health problems in humans and other mammals. A laser-powered, autonomous weed management solution reduces or eliminates farmers’ need for herbicides.
ECONOMICAL PATH TO ORGANIC FARMING
One of the largest obstacles to organic farming is cost-effective weed control. A solution to weed management that doesn’t require herbicides or an increase in manual labor provides farmers with a more realistic path to classifying their crops as organic.
Our story
Carbon Robotics is leading a revolution. Recent advances have unlocked the industry-reshaping potential of AI powered robotics – specifically the combination of computer vision, AI/deep learning, and robotics. The first multi-billion applications will be in industries with specific use cases and defined dollar value.
Agtech unlocks the potential of AI Robotics now. Farms are a controlled environment, every action has a dollar value, it’s a massive market, and growing food is a fundamental, global, and universal activity that human beings do for each other. Broadly, farmers do three things: planting, weeding, and harvesting. Of these, weed control is the biggest problem. It is their number one biggest annual expense and is non-discretionary, ubiquitous, and constant.
Tools today are very limited: farmers are forced to choose between using an immense amount of increasingly scarce and costly hand labor, spraying harmful chemicals, or using mechanical solutions that disrupt and destroy topsoil (think, the Dust Bowl). Herbicides are failing, and herbicide resistant weeds are rapidly multiplying after 40 years of overspraying. Not only do the current tactics come with a set of issues, but there is also a limit to how long these tactics can last. Farmers are eager for an option that offers immediate economic savings, results in healthier higher quality crops, and that is sustainable and regenerative for the future.
Enter Carbon Robotics - the first and only AI-powered LaserWeeder™.
Carbon Robotics produces revolutionary AI-powered robotic systems that precisely identify, weed and thin specialty vegetable crops using lasers with millimeter accuracy, while observing the conditions of the crop and soil in a field for later analysis. Its technology reduces the use of herbicides in traditional farming, eliminates unnecessary tilling for regenerative farming, and in many cases eliminates the need for weeding crews of up to 75 people per field per LaserWeeder unit. Carbon Robotics has sophisticated AI/deep learning and over 8 million labeled crop and weed image objects that, in the weeding application, delineate between individual weeds and crops in order to eliminate only the weeds, all in real time, at tractor speeds of 1-2 mph (2-4 acres per hour). These robots are also able to thin crops to maximize crop health and yields per acre.
Carbon Robotics, a Seattle-based agricultural robotics startup founded in 2018, builds innovative agricultural tools that empower farmers to operate more efficiently. Carbon Robotics’ revolutionary, high-precision laserweeding leverages sophisticated AI technology to improve crop quality, provide safer working conditions for farmers, reduce overall costs associated with modern farming, and create sustainable paths to regenerative and organic farming. The company launched its first product, the Autonomous LaserWeeder, in April 2021, raised a $27M Series B round in September 2021, and revealed its new LaserWeeder implement in February 2022.
Agtech unlocks the potential of AI Robotics now. Farms are a controlled environment, every action has a dollar value, it’s a massive market, and growing food is a fundamental, global, and universal activity that human beings do for each other. Broadly, farmers do three things: planting, weeding, and harvesting. Of these, weed control is the biggest problem. It is their number one biggest annual expense and is non-discretionary, ubiquitous, and constant.
Tools today are very limited: farmers are forced to choose between using an immense amount of increasingly scarce and costly hand labor, spraying harmful chemicals, or using mechanical solutions that disrupt and destroy topsoil (think, the Dust Bowl). Herbicides are failing, and herbicide resistant weeds are rapidly multiplying after 40 years of overspraying. Not only do the current tactics come with a set of issues, but there is also a limit to how long these tactics can last. Farmers are eager for an option that offers immediate economic savings, results in healthier higher quality crops, and that is sustainable and regenerative for the future.
Enter Carbon Robotics - the first and only AI-powered LaserWeeder™.
Carbon Robotics produces revolutionary AI-powered robotic systems that precisely identify, weed and thin specialty vegetable crops using lasers with millimeter accuracy, while observing the conditions of the crop and soil in a field for later analysis. Its technology reduces the use of herbicides in traditional farming, eliminates unnecessary tilling for regenerative farming, and in many cases eliminates the need for weeding crews of up to 75 people per field per LaserWeeder unit. Carbon Robotics has sophisticated AI/deep learning and over 8 million labeled crop and weed image objects that, in the weeding application, delineate between individual weeds and crops in order to eliminate only the weeds, all in real time, at tractor speeds of 1-2 mph (2-4 acres per hour). These robots are also able to thin crops to maximize crop health and yields per acre.
Carbon Robotics, a Seattle-based agricultural robotics startup founded in 2018, builds innovative agricultural tools that empower farmers to operate more efficiently. Carbon Robotics’ revolutionary, high-precision laserweeding leverages sophisticated AI technology to improve crop quality, provide safer working conditions for farmers, reduce overall costs associated with modern farming, and create sustainable paths to regenerative and organic farming. The company launched its first product, the Autonomous LaserWeeder, in April 2021, raised a $27M Series B round in September 2021, and revealed its new LaserWeeder implement in February 2022.
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