This robot uses AI to zap weeds without harming crops

This video is part of: Centre for Frontier Technologies and Innovation

It’s called Concentrated Light Autonomous Weeding and Scouting or CLAWS for short. CLAWS uses AI-powered image processing to identify the crops, then targets weeds around the crop with blasts of concentrated light. This gets rid of unwanted intruders without damaging either crops or soil.

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