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Beautiful use of machine learning and machine vision, get out of here with facial recognition everywhere, give me shit like this
Yes, more
and less
The Problem is, that these machines are hella expensive. I heard about costs of about 1.00.000€ + support. The one that I saw also has a newer version, that is probably even more expensive. Additionally you can not even closely match the efficency of herbicides, since equipment designed to apply herbicides has a working range of up to 40m and you can drive with much higher speeds.
So even tho laser looks like a promising solution they are not even anywhere close to being able to replace pesticides. There are other options for mechanically reducing weeds that may not match the efficiency, but are economically far more viable.