Impact-driven startup Weedbot is developing a laser weeding machinery for farmers that can localize plants, distinguish between crops and weeds and remove weeds with a laser beam. 50 technology changemakers are building machine learning models to facilitate pesticide-free food production.
Laser weeding can substantially reduce or even eliminate the need for chemical herbicides, thus reducing soil and groundwater pollution. This would also facilitate pesticide-free food production and reduce the final price for such food, encouraging people to buy organic food and follow a healthy lifestyle.
The goal is to develop a high-speed plant image recognition neural network with a speed of 12ms per image or faster and recognition precision of 100-110% of crop polygon (which means up to 10% false positives are allowed).
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Weedbot is a mission-driven startup building high precision weeding solutions for environmentally friendly agriculture.