AI Agriculture Weed Management

Been involved in agriculture and horticulture operations.  And if this works commercially,  it will be a huge breakthrough.   The AI part, distinguishing between planted crop and weeds, should be 'easy', the mechanical and navigational part, somewhat less so to deliver. Weeds by using a micro-dose of herbicide.  Why not a laser blast, perhaps not as easily controlled?  They have even suggested it can be scaled to home systems.  Consider too how it changes the $26 Billion herbicide market.

A Swiss weedkiller robot could curb our dependence on herbicides
By Dyllan Furness in DigitalTrend (includes a video of it in operation)

It takes a lot of work to keep produce aisles stocked in grocery stores — there’s the planting, tending, picking, and shipping. And even though most of these tasks rely on human labor, farms are becoming increasingly automated.

Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a Roomba-like robot that can tend to crops autonomously. At Carnegie Mellon, they’re building a suite of A.I. and drones to take on some of agriculture’s most demanding tasks. And just last year, a team of automated machines farmed an acre and a half of barley, from planting to harvesting, without a single human setting foot on the field. ... "