Shooting lasers at foes is the stuff of science fiction, but now, a few farmers are fighting one of their greatest nemeses with a new technology—laser weeders.
The problem with a single laser is, that, in order to achieve bigger working widths, it would have to be able to rotate very accurately, very fast and not shoot your crops at the same time. Especially the latter makes it impossible to use a single one.
You also dont have to “burn” the weeds. It is enough to destroy certain cells to stop them from growing.
Interesting; I thought this worked be a single high power laser (or a few) with galvanometers for targeting.
Would love to learn more about how it’s really done (as opposed to how I imagine it’d be done).
The problem with a single laser is, that, in order to achieve bigger working widths, it would have to be able to rotate very accurately, very fast and not shoot your crops at the same time. Especially the latter makes it impossible to use a single one.
You also dont have to “burn” the weeds. It is enough to destroy certain cells to stop them from growing.