Their robot, introduced in a paper pre-published on arXiv. "Automatic weeding technologies have attained a lot of attention lately, because of the harms and challenges weeds are causing for ...

"Assuming a robot costs $20,000, farmers with a forward-looking management perspective are likely to adopt it if 0.0001% of ...

While robots have been developed to do everything from mowing and seeding to fruit picking on farms, weeding is one of the more complex chores because it involves computer vision and cutting.

They also considered weed density, weed resistance, and economic thresholds that would trigger the adoption of robot weeding at the farm level. "We found that both seed density and resistance ...

A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign looks at the types of farmers and fields more likely to adopt weeding robots and at what stage of resistance development. Small ...