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Unknown to the penalty lunch heat, a robot driven by the sun, which is driven by artificial intelligence, carefully combs a cotton field in California, which weeds out.
While the farms in the United States are confronted with a lack of workers and weeds against herbicides, startup Aigen can save the robot solution – named element – to farmers, help the environment, help the environment and keep harmful chemicals away from food.
“I really believe that this is the greatest thing we can do to improve human health,” said co -founder and Chief Technology Officer Richard to AFP when robot on the Bowles Farm in the city of Los Banos through the harvest of the harvest.
“Everyone eats food sprayed with chemicals.”
If, a mechanical engineer who spent five years in Tesla for five years, the robot, after relatives who were managed in Minnesota, were informed to him that weeds were a expensive curse.
Weeds become immune to herbicides, but loud chemicals are often left as the only practical option.
“No farmer who we have ever spoken to said” I am in love with chemicals “,” added the co -founder and managing director of Aigen, Kenny, whose background is in software.
“You use it because it is a tool – we try to create an alternative.”
Element of the robots is similar to a large table on wheels, solar collectors. Metall arms that are equipped with small blades range to the hoe between harvest plants.
“It actually makes up how people work,” said Lee, when the temperature under a cloudless sky hit 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius).
“When the sun goes down, it just puts it down and sleeps; then it comes back in the morning and starts again.”
The robot’s AI system records data from on-board cameras so that it can follow the harvesting and weed.
“If you believe that this is a job we want, you only spend two hours on the field that would weigh,” said were said.
It is Aigen’s vision for workers who once worked in the heat to monitor and remedy robots.
Together with the AI on board, robots communicate wirelessly with small control centers and notifier handlers of breakdowns.
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Aigen has robots in tomato, cotton and sugar beet fields and advertises the ability of the technology without damage to the harvest.
Lee estimated that it takes about five robots to take 160 acres (65 hectares) of the farm.
The robots made from the 25-person startup based in the city of Redmond outside of Seattle cost $ 50,000.
