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http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/05/26/f....ap/index.html
" Researchers at the University of Illinois are working on a small robot that can identify individual weeds in a field and spray them with herbicide so farmers don't have to spray an entire field as they commonly do now. The robot will move perhaps 2 mph picking out weeds by color, location and other characteristics, engineer Lei Tina said. "Actually we have a prototype," he said. "We can identify the individual plant pretty well."" |
new weeder
On May 26, 6:51*pm, wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/05/26/f....ap/index.html " Researchers at the University of Illinois are working on a small robot that can identify individual weeds in a field and spray them with herbicide so farmers don't have to spray an entire field as they commonly do now. The robot will move perhaps 2 mph picking out weeds by color, location and other characteristics, engineer Lei Tina said. "Actually we have a prototype," he said. "We can identify the individual plant pretty well."" Is there a question here? Obviously a robot to ultimately reduce the use of herbicides is good. Which raises the question, why not a robot to eliminate the use of herbicides altogether? Is that a thought outside the herbicide box? Do our universities have any funding to develop and test products that don't use chemicals made by Monsanto? Of course, the University of Illinois folks are genuinely concerned about the use of herbicides, pesticides, just like the rest of us. Right? I envision a robot weeder that can identify weeds for various crops and that can zap them with a laser or even a mechanical weeding tool, weed puller, weed twister, or weed smasher? This would be REAL PROGRESS, in my humble opinion. To spray or to zap, that's the robot question? Keep on thinking... (outside the chemical box)... |
new weeder
a magnifying glass using the sun?
On Tue, 27 May 2008 15:57:52 -0400, Bill wrote: I envision a robot weeder that can identify weeds for various crops and that can zap them with a laser |
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