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This “intelligent sharpshooter” farming robot distinguishes crops from weeds - and it could help feed 10 billion people.
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The world population will hit 10 billion around the year 2050. We must use our farmland efficiently in order to feed everyone, and one solution is to employ autonomous robots.
One of these robots is an "intelligent sharpshooter" that can distinguish crops from weeds - and then it shoots them with the appropriate treatment. Because of such high precision, the robot uses 95% less chemicals than traditional sprayers.
The robot also scans the entire farm and is able to geolocate each plant accurately within centimeters.
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@freethink Год назад

Do you think we are in agriculture's fourth revolution?

@dertythegrower Год назад

Yes. Ag tech is the future of farming. I have done tech and farming.. the sensors and automation companies (small) I work and learn from are doing incredible things.. as Elon said.. we are coming to the age of abundance. Great time if you do not focus on the bad drama media that is so profitable to all our media companies. Ag tech stuff like this shows us a positive future

@sanderbenson1550 Год назад

In my belief, this is only the beginning, the dawn. The reason why I say so is that when it arrives at its fullest, this technology might be useful as one of many in a toolkit that involves polyculture, involving the restoration and involvement of native life, farm localization based on the geography, said native life, and ecosystem, removal and management of invasive species, and not just on land, but in the ocean as well, among other things. I can see things like this being used to destroy and manage invasive species that have no place among ecosystems they are devastating, for example.

@SahilP2648 Год назад

Fully automated agriculture is coming. The USA needs to invest in India where over 40% of the population is still in agriculture. It pains me to say this because that just means there will be a lot of poverty if so many people are employed in agriculture. In comparison only 4% of people in the USA are employed in agriculture. The only way is through using a lot of machinery and automation. I do want to start a company in India to automate farming but ideally the Indian government should support this. Instead Indian governments are supporting the farmers when in actuality the world is starting to phase out farmers. We Indians have always lacked thinking in terms of the bigger picture. I hope this is not screwed up.

@hunterhq295 Год назад

@@SahilP2648 Vertical farming like aquaponics and hydroponics, also even having vertical livestock farming.

@SahilP2648 Год назад

@@hunterhq295 vertical life stock farming only makes sense if there's some land restrictions. Ideally for life stock it is better to let them graze on open fields than put them in pens and stuff them with antibiotics which ultimately harm us. I think hydroponics and vertical farming should be done everywhere, and especially in USA because a lot of shipping costs and quality degradation because of shipping can be avoided because farming will then be done on site in the city.

@MilanVoslar Год назад

The fact that it remembers around 4 million plants and created a digital copy of the whole field is absolutely mind blowing!!

@freethink Год назад

Absolutely! Must be so rewarding for it to watch all 4 million grow 🙂

@tbren6707 Год назад

Definitely the engineer and nerd in me thinking this, but I wonder what a "file size" of a 4 mil crop plot would be, lol. And is this something that Verdant takes care of in a cloud based system or is all this data sent raw to the farmers for them to figure out. Fascinating to me to think about such a large group of crops layed out as a digital footprint where every one has individual details. Really incredible possibilities.

@MilanVoslar Год назад

@@tbren6707 I believe they do process the data in some way and have some sort of front end developed for the farmers cause i literally cannot imagine farmers scraping through all that raw data on their own haha

@hugovale6360 Год назад

I think the real mind blowing is the automatic identification of the type of plant or weed, because as far as taking a photo with GPS is something we have mastered for more than a decade.

@electricshmoo Год назад

@@tbren6707 I suspect multiple plants are taken per picture... but worst case, 4mil photos at 4k image quality compressed is about 32TB, uncompressed/raw about 95TB... single SSD's are 8TB+ these days, so.. about 4 disks. fits in about 1.5 packs of cigarettes (for size comparison)... really no need for any cloud.

@xMrJanuaryx Год назад

I work in precision agg and it's an interesting industry. When I see something like this I get excited but (there's always a but) I think this tech has a LONG way to go. Most farmers don't have perfectly flat square plots of land. They don't have incredibly expensive high tech tractors. They certainly don't have money to spend on tech that may not produce positive results. I can't imagine how much a machine like the one we are seeing in this video would cost... 1, 2, 3 million? What if it breaks... you have to pay a specialist $300/hr to come fix it I imagine considering it would probobly take an engineer to do so.

@drd4059 Год назад

The $300 specialist is the JD solution to drive business to their dealer network.

@MrInterestingWorld Год назад

@@drd4059 exactly

@MrInterestingWorld Год назад

The tractor shouldn't be an issue here. It's just a toolcarrier like the New Hollands in this video. If it saves a farmer tens of thousands in pesticides and fertilizer it's a worthwile investments that most banks will back, even if the price tag ends up in the hundreds of thousands.

@drd4059 Год назад

@@dohope4554 Lasers don't work very well in dusty conditions.

@curtislowe4577 Год назад

There are contractors in virtually every sector of ag business. The equipment investment will be sizable for a contractor to buy this equipment. The savings in ag chemicals and maintenance to spray equipment is the basis for overhead reduction to farners less the cost to hire contractors with this equipment. Will that reduction be enough to induce farmers to accept widespread contract spraying?

@christopherdawkins19 Год назад

the idea that "superhuman farming" is simply "robotic farming" is bending my mind 🤯

@genesises Год назад

marketing!

@NotoriousPyro Год назад

Someone has to build and design the robots. So its "superhuman"

@anubaral Год назад

it's just an idea, jus like have an idea to become god and have myself a 50 yard dick

@NSResponder Год назад

A hundred years ago, about 80% of Americans worked on farms. Today, thanks to mechanization, it's about 3% or less. Going robotic means that could fall by another 90+%, while the quality of food delivered to customers can be nearly perfect.

@seigeengine 9 месяцев назад

@@NSResponder This is majorly incorrect. A hundred years ago, only about 25% of the American workforce was in agriculture. Even going back another hundred years before that, it was only 70%. And even when going back to the middle ages, it varied from 55%-80% by country.

@TimLongson Год назад

A great step, BUT this technology should be pared with the also pioneering laser technology being used to precisely & accurately kill weeds, without the need for any herbicides. If the combined technology could be used to REMOVE herbicides, & reduce the amount of fertilizers needed by 95%, then it could appeal to even the organic foods market.

@sp3cterproductions Год назад

You'll just burn the top of the weed, how would you laser weeds below the ground?

@sp3cterproductions Год назад

Herbicides kill the weed at a biological level.

@yeetdeets Год назад

@@sp3cterproductions A little bit of weed cover is probably just a good thing - covering the topsoil from radiation and evaporation. If you can selectively cut down the weeds regularly in such a way that they don't interfere with the crop, that would be enough. If some weeds grow too fast or kill the crop aggressively or something, you can kill those specifically and keep the rest. Since they are already mapping all the weeds, categorizing them and correlating the density of certain weeds with crop yield, you might even find exactly which weeds are a net minus. Wouldn't surprise me if they find out some weeds have large positives due to improved soil health, insect deterrent effects and water retention. This could basically enable no-till with some permaculture principles in large scale agriculture.

@jackwilliamburgess Год назад

See Small Robot Co. In the UK

@chrisstearns10 Год назад

The first thing I thought of was using lasers instead of herbicides🤣👍👍

@kiloton1920 Год назад

As a farmer and botanist I find this to be a total pipe dream and incredibly terrifying. This is because it does one thing, allow them to control agriculture even more than they already do.

@aierce Год назад

Cry more

@kiloton1920 Год назад

@@aierce do you attack everybody who tries to share valuable perspectives with you? You will not go far in this life, I wish you the best but I know it won’t help one single but.

@itsmebougie Год назад

Farmers want two things: 1) shiny new toys 2) the ability to fix their own stuff Keep doing what you’re doing, keep right to repair in mind and you’ll do amazing things

@colgatetoothpaste4865 Год назад

This is complicated stuff too technically 😢😢😢😢 needs a degree in robotics and electronics

@superspooky4580 Год назад

Correct right to repair is king

@itsmebougie Год назад

@@colgatetoothpaste4865 I’m sorry but you’re just plain wrong. People can look up schematics and fix smartphones and laptops and motherboards with ease, unless companies use intentionally difficult to repair things to increase profits. These things could be designed in a way that make repairs easier, with modular parts, replaceable items, fixable frames, ect. See all those shooters? Each could be a plug and play unit with detachable wires to a main hub, which could have a removable motherboard, power supply, and designed with repair in mind. Calibration processes could be done via integrated software that makes fixing fast. I’m not saying all repairs are possible, what I’m saying is you can lower the costs of an average repair with some clever engineering.

@subbinbacktoallsubbs5272 Год назад

@@colgatetoothpaste4865 you dont need a degree, just a tutorial and redilly available parts.

@life_of_riley88 Год назад

@@itsmebougie Nailed it. It's about design philosophy, and if done right, repairs are simple.

@pintoacr3800 9 месяцев назад

THIS IS WHAT AMERICA IS ALL ABOUT. WE NEED MORE INNOVATORS LIKE THIS.

@Jay_hendy Год назад

This is so so cool. These people are changing the world.

@hannesRSA Год назад

The tech is there to do this and much more.. many engineers are capable of doing jobs like this and would love to. So it's just up to investment going into development of agtech now.

@-p2349 Год назад

@@hannesRSA So much food aid is sent to Africa but never farming equipment 🤔

@curtishand6180 Год назад

@@-p2349 My household needs aid. Care to send some?

@charlesnorden4375 Год назад

Nah not really...these guys are still ruining the world

@brandonfoley7519 Год назад

Unlikely

@pollutingpenguin2146 Год назад

This is going to change farming completely

@freethink Год назад

Between this, indoor farms, etc. it's wild to think how different farming could look in 20 years.

@firstamendmenttshirt4768 Год назад

No it will not you will have no farm or control, an nature always finds a way to destroy itself.

@tommyv2317 Год назад

@@freethink property of land will shift from small farmers to an industrial complex that have the financial means to farm this way. Investment funds, the wealthy in general, are already scooping up farmland, usually with the help of complacent governments who pass laws that forces farmers out of the markets (see sri Lanka or the Netherlands) Result... We'll depend more and more on corporations to feed ourselves

@user-xb6fl9ri6g Год назад

lol nope

@deltaxcd Год назад

I think not, more likely some greedy corporation that produces those things will just use it to milk farmers more charging them for like every weed that things kills and preventing any unauthorized repair or use.

@fritzeder1847 Год назад

There is a widespread misconceptionn about weed. As weed remains on the field it builds up humus. No precious fertlizer gets lost - vice versa is the case. The only thing someone needs to take care of is that weed does not overgrow and shadow csting on fuits and crops. Killing weed in fact gives more room for specific pests of the crop, and is the reason for soil erosion. On the long run therefore controlling the weed is much more beneficiary than its extintion.

@whitneymacdonald4396 Год назад

This is so great! Amidst all the bad news, it's great to see people working so hard for solutions. Power on!!

@arianeparadis6439 Год назад

That's the kind of work I've always wanted to do...if I can master computer science one day

@APhamx7 Год назад

You don’t have to be a master to get started. AgTech is very welcoming. Start small and grow working in the industry.

@arianeparadis6439 Год назад

@@APhamx7 I started learning on my own and luckily I also just got accepted in a computer science program :) I will be looking for internships into AgTech if possible. Thank you for your comment. It motivated me!

@DriesDD Год назад

Imagine, a few years down the line, applying these principles to maintaining an edible polyculture ecosystem-farm. Not necessarily a big machine going through a flat field, but small drones tending to trees, vines, herbs, plants, pollinators and water features all in the location that is best for them based on local features. It could micromanage weeding and harvesting, but also composting, planting, grafting and nurturing keystone species and rare species while avoiding pesticide, nitrogen imbalance and soil compaction. A productive farm could look like the garden of Eden.

@djangodoescomputer Год назад

wouldnt even need giant clunky "path" infrastructure for silly human sized harvesters. it could be a dense jungle, designed by AI for maximum yields, and entirely tended by flying drone systems from above and smart hydroponic swimmer bots underneath

@bighands69 Год назад

Such a farm would need a very high volume of drones with today's technology but I could imagine in the 2030s such a farm in operation. The key would be to develop drone technology that is networked with various sets of data nodes within the farm. Such technology could also be used to scare away rodents and birds at key times in the growth cycle.

@zXJulianXz Год назад

Add in drones which are self sufficient, using solar energy and docking on wind, hydro electric, or even utilising biomass from composting for energy, and you have a closed loop. Only missing piece is maintenance and material scarcity which for computer chips is already an issue. With quantum computing on the horizon, we will also see another revolution in the speed and processing power of a.i., potentially infinite powers when they can stabilise the qubit systems.

@MrPicklesAndTea Год назад

I'm not convinced drones would be able to do the bulk of the work at any stage, or be self-sufficient. However, it's possible that farmers will have their own personal servers running AI drones constantly patrolling for pests and weeds.

@CryptolockerMD Год назад

@@djangodoescomputer Drone swarms could accomplish so many things, but the problem I see is weaponization. They have to potential to be as dangerous as nuclear or bio weapons and could enable too much power to be in the hands of too few.

@Justin1337Sane Год назад

If this works, the future looks alittle more brighter to me. And i hope all farmers will be able to use it. Great work! And thank you for doing something thats good for the planet

@bighands69 Год назад

@Σ People are not going to be eating crickets.

@Justin1337Sane Год назад

@@bighands69 In some Asia contries they actually do eat them :D just pointing out a fact :D

@gideonkloosterman Год назад

@@bighands69 YOU WILL EAT ZE BUGS >:D

@etnolk Год назад

You're welcome

@adicawidasuparman9144 Год назад

@@Justin1337Sane it's a survival food and strange delicacy type of thing even here, you don't normally eat it as a staple

@-cheshire-cat Год назад

"How many plants do you have in your smart farm?" "1,356,732... Give or take 1 or 2.."

@dreamerx23 Год назад

its great to know that farmers are getting on board with new methods too!

@prashanthb6521 Год назад

Many Farmers are actually eager to have new technologies. My native village farmers in India were eager to know when I will be building a drone to spray fertilizers over crops and deweed them.

@jebes909090 Год назад

Farmers have been at the cutting end of technology for years, at least in western countries.

@brandonfoley7519 Год назад

Not interested at all! Keep your witchcraft!

@BenjaminGoose Год назад

@@brandonfoley7519 XD

@highlander5521 2 месяца назад

Ants: "F*ck the Star Destroyer coming

@asdfssdfghgdfy5940 Год назад

As someone getting into precision agriculture and agribusiness, I'm really looking forward to considering the possibilities for broad acre cereals and legumes etc. The prices of chemicals are going up so much (around here glyphosate prices have soared) which means farmers will actually be forced to consider new options.

@honkhonk8009 Год назад

In the future I wouldnt even be surprised if we see farmers conslidate or have agreements with other farmers to recreate that type of "ecosystem" that kept soil healthy all those years ago, simply cus its cheaper and more practical. world been taking massive W's so far.

@bighands69 Год назад

Over regulation is driving up the price of chemicals that are used.

@PeterWayner Год назад

Why use chemicals to kill the weeds? Let's do go with a mechanical process like a spade bit on a drill. They can kill the weeds mechanical so there are no chemicals used!

@bighands69 Год назад

@@PeterWayner Because on a large field it would be very complex to target every week with a mechanical remove process.

@asdfssdfghgdfy5940 Год назад

@@bighands69 Exactly this. I live on a 'small' farm block of around 900 acres. The guy that leases it farms closer to 10000 acres. Pretty much every paddock has a water tank on it, so he can just drive his sprayer out and fill it up and go. It takes them well less than a day to do 900 acres. Now compare this to the cons of mechanical weeding. You will have to use a tractor with thin wheels, which instantly decreases the size of the implement you can use, so it will take longer. Different weeds come at different times in the growing cycle so you will have to do this multiple times. Once a crop is a certain height this just won't work. I could go on with a heap more problems. I'm all for reducing chemical usage on crops, but I also understand the realities. I worked on an organic veggie farm for years, where we mostly weeded mechanically with tractors (or hand weeded, I still have PTSD from hoeing out weeds). It takes a long time, and has to be done when the weeds are tiny. As a farmer, things nearly always get out of hand and suddenly you are behind, and now the weeds are too big.

@DoseofTruth Год назад

This is beautiful. Engineering and design will save humanity. Nothing else will

@WioWio-sf5pc Год назад

lol do you know the food waste in murica???.....

@rolandet 9 месяцев назад

This is absolutely brilliant !!!

@wovasteengova Год назад

Another great video by freethink. This is why I have hope in humanity. We always tackle problems, and find a solution.

@brandonfoley7519 Год назад

Are you serious? This is a solution in your mind?

@wovasteengova Год назад

@@brandonfoley7519 What? yes this is a solution...no its not a solution to all humanities problems...but its a solution for a problem farmers have...If you want a solution for all humanities problems...remove greed.

@prebenkul Год назад

This is cool however, if you patent this technology, no other farm industry can make this, which means you won't help the world but yourself. My country will most likely never get it because of how companies stop others from making the same tech.

@suddeneye9836 Месяц назад

When they show how profitable this is, there will be competition (that’s the hope anyway)

@ak-ub1ym Год назад

Coming from a family background in agriculture , weeds are actually allowed to grow & then used as manure in organic way of farming so it reduces the dependency on synthetic and artificial fertilizers. Still this maybe useful in commerical farming rather than conventional farming.

@Beyonder8335 Год назад

I’m a farmer currently, never heard of this, could you elaborate?

@ak-ub1ym Год назад

@@Beyonder8335 in the eastern regions , they really hate weeds as well but sometimes when it comes to cyclic farming they allow them to grow so it can be used as manure for the future crops so we don't have to use any artificial ones. But not all weeds some weeds are taken away and burnt since they aren't that useful as manure. But this works only in conventional way of agriculture where crops are cycled seasonally not really practiced that much now since produce & results is kinda slow but doesn't DMG the soil too much. So this conventional method is not fit for the current scenario where the produce is meant to fast and that's where this automated method might fit in.

@siddharthsingh7508 Год назад

@@ak-ub1ym yeah most Asian farmers use weeds as manure too especially in rice farming where they rotavate the ground, also a lot of mulching is present in traditional Asian farms.

@littlehippo5004 Год назад

@@siddharthsingh7508 I think you guys mean using weeds as compost, not manure. Manure is just animal dung, and in a standard greens, manure, straw compost mixture, weeds are the greens.

@siddharthsingh7508 Год назад

@@littlehippo5004 oh yeah my bad, we call manure as anything that nourishes the land, lost in translation i might say.

@Cainexavier Год назад

Awesome video, putting a very optimistic light on the future of farming! Hope all is well with you and your families, and happy holidays!

@quinndirks5653 Год назад

all I can think is "wow that's awesome" really cool, I wish I was a part of it somehow.

@WulfNSpice Год назад

This is super interesting stuff!!! i also hear about back in the old days they used frequency generators to accelerate growth. There are also companies that use this tech to ward off insects like bed bugs and mosquitos. using this is farming is probably going to be Earth changing.

@napleswolverine7189 Год назад

Some good scientist that are working on keeping people alive instead of killing them thank you so much👍🏻

@B61Mod12 Год назад

I love the way everyone just accepts that the earth is going to have 10 billion people like that isn't an immensely undesirable problem.

@brandonfoley7519 Год назад

And then after that 20 billion, except the earth absolutely can't handle that many monkeys

@johnseppethe2nd2 Год назад

10 billion people is fine. We've already established that population controls are disastrous policies alrogether

@need2connect Год назад

@@brandonfoley7519 except you literally don’t know anything that you are saying. Try graduating high school before continuing to spread biased opinions maybe?

@brandonfoley7519 Год назад

@@need2connect what did I say that you having a hard time understanding The population will only grow, what happens to animals that over populate It's going to be a bad time

@cryptexawm3285 Год назад

it kills live weeds, but what about seeds? part of the reason for drenching is to use pre emergent for seeds buried down

@OgdenM Год назад

Just run the tractor over the field more often. Stop the lifecycle post seed and no seeds will even have a chance to develop. Eventually no more weeds.

@Dysiode Год назад

4 million carrots in that one tiny field. The scale of modern agriculture is staggering. I think it's great that large companies are investing in it, however if it doesn't become economical enough for small farms it's just going to further drive consolidation and food monopolies like the one Bolthouse apparently has on carrots. All that said, it would be interesting to do precision watering the same way, especially in deserts like California

@funnyposts1811 Год назад

The idea is absolutely amazing. The question remains the assessment of the results, fine calibration then hoping for the best results.

@MarksmanSpecialist Год назад

wow the intro just blew my mind, like i just realized where the future is headed. needing to be more efficient in terms or more micro oriented focus.

@mightisright Год назад

Now this is a great use of the power of advanced computing, voluminous data and precision equipment. It maximizes crop yields in a way that human physical and mental power cannot on a large scale.

@evo_brzy Год назад

Working for this company is just mind blowing 💪🏽 the future of ag in the making!

@channel8-bit433 Год назад

Finally someone took the idea I had and made it work! I always felt that if roomba was possible, so could a GPS controlled robot that goes between crop rows and destroys/digs up the weeds

@ryanchappell5962 Год назад

This is absolutely amazing!

@eestaashottentotti2242 Год назад

That auto-pollination would maybe be useful with vanilla beans, since they have to be pollinated by hand.

@imjody Год назад

I would have never thought that this would be possible. So incredible to see it happening!! So many incredibly smart people out there, and I love it!

@stex5026 Год назад

F***ing yeah!!! This is a project with underappreciated level of difficulty. Amazing work, guys!

@kflashcarr888 Год назад

I love when technology is used to further humanity's progression towards a more permanent position with natural health.

@RyanEglitis Год назад

Would have been more impressive if he had a count of the plants in the field instead of just guessing "about 4 million" after saying they remember every plant.

@kolinboorom6868 Год назад

If it can image the field and map it, nothing tells me this couldn’t run autonomously AND AT NIGHT which is massive. Reducing daytime tasks for farmers is major

@MKeliminator Год назад

This is the coolest stuff I've seen in months, seems amazing and I believe it's just a matter of time until they succeed!

@kevinparker48 Месяц назад

The best part is this is less chemicals... Less of the stuff we're eating.

@dietrevich Год назад

Awesome! Now we need them to be autonomous and powered by solar and we have the perfect ag machine that's truly environmentally friendly.

@freethink Год назад

It may be a matter of time! We're seeing autonomous construction robots emerge and you could certainly imagine a place like this (central California) would be a great place to also use solar to, for example, recharge swappable batteries and eliminate the need for a lot of fossil fuels. Time will tell!

@jmlinden7 Год назад

Making it autonomous isn't particularly difficult, it only really has to drive in a straight line and not deal with any other traffic. The problem is that they break down regularly, which requires someone riding along to make repairs anyways, so making it autonomous doesn't actually save you any labor costs

@deltaxcd Год назад

I am wondering why they are not autonomous already as attaching that thing to a tractor that has to drive at snail speed makes no sense at all unless your goals was to invent a torture device. if it was autonomous it also could be much smaller and cheaper that that huge monstrosity and nobody woud care that it crawls slower than turtle because eventually it will finish the job

@barryraymond9004 Год назад

@@deltaxcd The tractor isn't big to transport a person. Its big and heavy on purpose to plow and move heavy objects, this is just one of many things a tractor can do. Its also why tractors will be the last thing to be electrified as they need LOTS of power all day long. The real game changer is the decrease in petrochemical based fertilizers and pesticides used.

@honkhonk8009 Год назад

@@barryraymond9004 I dont think so. Tractors are useful because of their torque. Electric motors provide the most torque at 0 rpm. Tractors like these are already autonomous and have been a decade. They just go around a predetermined path. I think were prolly gonna see a few get wired up like you would a lawnmower in the future.

@albertoginelsalvador2172 Год назад

I'm designing an education that follows the student like this, but for now, the carrots receive a more personalised approach 😆

@freethink Год назад

I mean, we hope you're not running over your students with a tractor

@albertoginelsalvador2172 Год назад

@@freethink I left teaching, now I just do theory. In a poetical view, yes, the system is running over our students with a tractor. I love the aproach of using the precision to reduce the harm we where doing with pesticides, 95% is a lot.

@jeffw8218 Год назад

What was that thing about poly-culture farming, i.e. growing more than one crop in a field? Was that ever commercially viable outside of peoples gardens?

@robertslingerland8522 Год назад

Yes. Here in western Canada more and more farmers are doing it on broad acre farms.

@jeffw8218 Год назад

@@robertslingerland8522 Example? And I’m not talking about crop rotation, I’m talking about one large multi-acre field with several different crops.

@robertslingerland8522 Год назад

@@jeffw8218 sorry. My bad. I should have provided some examples. The most popular one is peas and oats. Another very common one is peas and canola. On our farm we have also tried oats and mustard once and we are always looking for other combinations that might work. It's not crazy popular yet but every year I see more people trying it out. We usually do it on 160 acre or larger fields

@CoryTaylor904 Год назад

We should be using hydroponic farms

@ArrKayLondon Год назад

As someone who is studying ML, python and loves robotics and also growing stuff I love this video!

@kurtkurtson9111 Год назад

As someone who doesn't study ML, python and absolutely hates robotics I love this video!

@alexandrep4913 Год назад

Youre probably not going to be doing anything with that to be honest. For one, you're a pajeet, so it's basically guaranteed that you're going to be annoying everyone in the west and for two, most of the ground work for this stuff has already been done.

@ericinman9245 Год назад

I'm terrified by the ever dwindling number of insects of all kinds. I mean, I live in the foothills of the Appalachia Mountains. Shocking. Alarming

@bighands69 Год назад

All nonsense.

@brandonfoley7519 Год назад

@@bighands69 go on, explain

@zapermunz Год назад

@@bighands69 Haven't been outside in a while huh?

@bighands69 Год назад

@@brandonfoley7519 People just putting up their antidotal feelings and the ramblings of academic political activists does not mean anything really.

@bighands69 Год назад

My farms are covered in insects. There are so many of them that they will actively eat foliage.

@JJs_playground 9 месяцев назад

This is crazy engineering and tech.

@Enchantaire Год назад

Truly an amazing innovation

@epi965 Год назад

Very cool technology . Go Verdant Robotics !

@sage3236 Год назад

this technique still relies on petrol and deep tillage. seems like an unsustainable practice, despite how novel it may seem.

@alexandre5204 Месяц назад

I was so worried they were not gonna say it. So i started to think they were serious ! But they did. MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE.

@edwardnigma2216 Год назад

The sad thing about this is that only large mega-farms can afford this technology. That means, when they have a massively increased output with darastically reduced expences, they're in a position to buy up all the farmland around them. So, how many of you are comfortable with 2-3 people controlling the entire food supply eventually?

@TorianTammas 9 месяцев назад

Even Today it is a huge investment and you need a lot of money for farming that is bound to the machinery and to keep the business running between harvests. These robots on the other hand could become so cheap that group of farmers could share them and farm together.

@VantaBlackSheep Год назад

Would the produce here pass for organically farmed 😂 ❤️ amazing solutions and amazing channel.

@mikelahood9600 Год назад

Yeah! It's an organic weeding and fertilizing robot.

@mikelahood9600 Год назад

@Han Boetes 1:23 the co-founder says "organic weeding machine". Product could mean many things but my guess is they use a high-powered vinegar of sorts to organically weed fields. I'm sure other projects are killing mechanically. The nice thing about this approach is it doesn't disrupt the soil. I read online somewhere that Verdant is going to be adding lasers to kill weeds so they could potentially use no liquids at all.

@VantaBlackSheep Год назад

@Han Boetes yeah I saw another company that does that with lasers…kills the weeds with lasers

@DAndyLord Год назад

Organic food is (mostly) a scam that is bad for the environment. Organic farms need more land (land use being the worst part of farming environmentally) to produce the same amount of nutrition as a traditional farm. This machine is great because it uses far fewer pesticides/fertilizers per m2 of farm.

@ooooneeee Год назад

@@mikelahood9600 wouldn't vinegar lower soil pH? Or do they balance that out with a corresponding basic treatment?

@seamuscarroll2779 Год назад

A marvelous use of technology.

@alacastersoi8265 Год назад

FINALLY SOMEONE DID IT

@ianvisser7899 Год назад

Pretty cool concept, especially when you think of things like grapes, or berries. If it can determine if they are ready to harvest, then zap off the stem, to drop off the fruit, it'll make all crops that are currently not harvestable by machines, possible.

@hamishbracey5411 Год назад

As a farmer I don’t think this will happen in my generation. Picking fruit needs to be done very carefully and current machines are not able to or they are way way to expensive

@Zantides Год назад

I thought it sniped the weeds with lasers for a couple minutes haha

@freethink Год назад

There are actually robots that do this! www.freethink.com/technology/farming-robot

@drd4059 Год назад

Lasers can be used, but use too much energy to be a good solution: that is the cost per shot is too high relative to the value of the weed.

@NopeAndYep Год назад

I once read a book series Zork. One of the books taken place in a post nuclear war environment. The heroes come across a huge robotic vehicle that kept planting little tres in the desert. That is what it was programmed to do forever.

@Mor4me Год назад

Thanks for the hope 👍🏽✌🏽🌺

@TyKoz825 Год назад

The fact that the robot costs more than any what any farm can make in 10 years is also a pretty cool feature ig

@kinngrimm Год назад

One would need to see the price when it is produced in reasonable quantities and also calculate against it all the pesticides and herbecides which maybe don't need to be bought and then there is the priceless effect of the soil not being lifeless and dead or these poisons not being in our food. Sinking healthcare costs would be a factor should we be able to get rid of most if not all herbecides and pesticides i would assume. Consumers are meanwhile becoming more and more aware of all of this like we here now and therefor are maybe willing to pay for such till would become industry standard.

@minhducnguyen9276 Год назад

@@kinngrimm Looks like this is an incentive problem. Individual business will not be benefited directly from this technology especially in the short term. Unless this technology is subsidized or enforced nobody would consider it.

@kinngrimm Год назад

@@minhducnguyen9276 to me it looks like a technology especially made for these huge american farms which go from one horizon to the other(i know those are not only in america, but i just have that picture in my brain). There i think they will really shine. The smaller the farm the less this will make sense just from a cost perspective, but also on how things are done there. The smallest farms are often already going a regenerativ way where certain aspects of animals for nitrates and grassing for food is combined with crop production with no use of herbecides, pesticides and no use of antibiotics. These seem to have certain advantages also in terms of soil, where it is more protected against dry periods and more natural bacteria which help the plant life. Subsidize i would maybe therefor also make dependend on size of the farm as if a medium sized farm may have need for just one , huge farms may needs 20 or more, but therefor also have certain synergies they will profit of, while the small farms i don't even see a need for this aslong it is not already cheaply available and the kinks being worked out and therefor it wouln't cost them their livelyhood to make a bad investment. Also, in general, independent where one lives, subsedize as good practice should always be checked regularly if they are still needed in that sector of industry, Just too often these seemingly go on forever, costing a pretty penny while the industry is already making huge profits.

@oisiaa Год назад

Not only this, but it should be autonomous and solar powered.

@armaniwebb4467 Год назад

1 step at a time

@trumptookthevaccine1679 Год назад

And Fly Too. And cook 😂

@rcpmac Месяц назад

Actually multiple steps concurrently. It’s all happening. @@armaniwebb4467

@theldraspneumonoultramicro405 Год назад

this is a potentially very big and very important leap forward in agriculture. heres hoping it works out in the end.

@Bossmodegoat Год назад

I suspect weeds will start evolving to look like the crops they’re growing next to, like how they evolved to break off just above the root if you pull them.

@Tallblocker2 Год назад

Interesting point

@shadbakht Год назад

Why are they farming in California in the first place, where there's a water shortage? Farm in states that get rain!

@geowar20 Год назад

This area is near enough to the coast to receive most of it’s precipitation from the marine layer that comes in in the mornings. The water table here is high here for the same reason. These coastal areas (like around Watsonville & Salinas) aren’t as arid as the Central Valley.

@rcpmac Месяц назад

Sun temperature soil

@FarmTraveler 8 месяцев назад

This is awesome! And a GREAT reminder that agriculture is much more advanced that people realize!

@freethink 8 месяцев назад

Glad you liked the video! We think agriculture tech is awesome, too 🌳❤️

@markp8263 Год назад

Awesome Tech! Wonder how long before you don't need a driver as well.

@freethink Год назад

Probably not so long! We're seeing autonomous construction robots entering the marketplace, and driverless cars are pretty effective in environments that are geofenced like farms could be. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6oqEKyseu2U.html

@letsburn00 Год назад

They pretty much don't already. Its just that if it drives into a tree, it might cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. So paying a guy to sit in there for a few weeks during harvest to stop the .01% risk is worth it.

@maxypantaloons Год назад

Interesting concept and definitely impressive to see the level of accuracy and the mapping capabilities they have developed. The plant ID aspect is potentially gamechanging if it is as accurate as we are told. I'm not convinced by its scalability as it seems to be dependent on heavy fossil fuel consumption and probably best used in monocultures like the ones they have shown. Their solution solves part of the issues linked to overusing chemical inputs but fossil fuel depended agriculture with its heavy land use imprint is still incredibly vulnerable to climatic events (drought, frost etc.), disease and the general degredation of top soil linked to compaction and tilling. Not to mention the impact on biodiversity at scale that we should be striving to bring back instead of replace. Pollination via machine is impressive but what happened to pollinators? Would be interesting to see how you could harness this technology for agroforestry or other more resilient farming methods though

@andythebouncer Год назад

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Sure it would be grand if this solved every problem at once but that's not how progress works.

@lubricustheslippery5028 Год назад

With the ability to threat each plant individually it should be possible to mix several crops in the same field as they mentioned in the video. Most farms is using tractors so I don't think the amount of needed diesel will increase. If it mechanically is possible to harvest individuell plants and remove weeds. Then it should be possible to have fields that is never tiled or bare.

@andreweveritt3829 Год назад

Brilliant!

@efraim6960 Год назад

they're micro-managing crops. this tech is nuts!

@RhoTrepaan Год назад

Just don’t exclusively license it to John Deere , or anyone in an exclusive license at all.

@RhoTrepaan Год назад

But, insanely awesome and probably a very big step in friendlier and better farming

@oootoob Год назад

Can't see this being affordable or accessible to the developing world where the vast majority of the world's food is grown, at least not in the short to medium term, and it is there that the damage from intensive agrochemical approaches is most acute as controls and protections to people and the environment are much less applied.

@jamescrud Год назад

I doubt his company cares. Like the majority of startups, their goal is to build an aquistion target and get bought up by some gigantic corporation for a billion dollars.

@oootoob Год назад

Which would rather undermine his rhetoric about motivations for developing this technology to support regenerative agriculture and sustainable food production if it's only affordable for large scale industrial farms in the West.

@nickthompson1812 Год назад

@@oootoob the only rhetoric I heard was making farming more profitable. That’s what it all boils down to, profit.

@Vaeldarg Год назад

Not every company has to think about every market, though. There's plenty of other companies developing systems for developing countries. It's just that this isn't one of them.

@richardstubbs6484 Год назад

"the vast majority of food is grown in developing countries " : that's not quite true.

@montealadadi3088 Год назад

We need this.. thank you

@paulocastro7870 Год назад

Brilliant idea !

@mikelahood9600 Год назад

pew-pew!

@anonymoushonesty2688 Год назад

What's terrifying is that this will eventually force weeds to mimic the appearance of the crop their trying to protect.

@jorims8537 Год назад

Nice and smart thought!!

@lookupverazhou8599 Год назад

Machines are so organic!

@daddy6757 Год назад

Good new, but if we don't do something about the food that we waste at the same time, the system is still inefficient. Technological miracle like these is great however it can only carry us so far if the overconsumption and wasteful issues ain't solve.

@OgdenM Год назад

I said the same thing pretty much. Really, the wastefulness is the worse part of the two you mentioned. Markets throw away an insane amount of food every day.

@cominoengenharia Год назад

Most seem to be (voluntarily?) blind to the fact that we DON'T have a food production problem. That WE ALREADY HAVE enough being produced to feed the whole world. But the way the system works (immense amount of lands to produce soy to animal stock, specialty and expensive fruits or 'superfoods' to feed riches all around, and land concentration in very few hands), it doesn't matter how productive we are, what will happen is the system will readjust itself so that it will make even more luxury eating possible, while keeping billions starving, as it already do. What we urgently need is to question the root of our economic and political system, to make people realize the absurdity of having most of humanity living under vulnerability, food insecurity or even worse, misery.

@TorianTammas 9 месяцев назад

@cominaengenharia - The main problem is transport, storage and distribution. We have a lot of countries that have an exploding population and neither the infrastructure nor the money to support them.

@RogerioDec 10 месяцев назад

This is majestic!

@notthatthenamematters6163 Год назад

Snipin's a good job mate

@TheSkystrider Год назад

How do we keep biodiversity and microbes and insects/pollinators? How do we stop monocultures? How do we scale back on land used for agriculture to bring back forests. Indoor stacked hydroponics in the future maybe, once we have 100x more energy than our current fossil fuels, but clean energy. For now, every time you say no to meat and dairy, and yes to vegetables or shellfish, you are reducing the land and resources and fresh water required to sustain your own personal life.

@JAGUARBURST Год назад

This was the exact question running through my mind. Other being why is no one taking about this in the comments.

@dertythegrower Год назад

Awesome topic... thank you. This is going to make, as Elon Musk said recently .. "The Age of Abundance". I have seen it already, farming is being automated at a very fast pace. I grow, I know.

@yanyocombe1872 Год назад

Well done dude 👍😎

@ompatel2516 Год назад

Amazing video @Freethink , keep it up 👍

@cheesemaster113 9 месяцев назад

this is great!

@jsmit9161 Год назад

It's fascinating how technology keeps coming up with solutions for monoculture problems without solving the monoculture problem.

@lefuturiste27 Год назад

I wonder if bringing more technology into agriculture is going to solve anything. It has the potential of creating more problems than it solve.

@shamicentertainment1262 2 месяца назад

Yeah but since this is a video/camera based AI system, it should be able to differentiate multiple different types of plants within a field. So you could have different types of foods and it would still be able to target them all effectively, I think

@ZergD Год назад

I loved every second of this video! Thank you so much!

@KhairulAnwar-mp8lo Год назад

This is awesome.

@fessit Год назад

I love this. This is WONDERFUL technology. May this technology withstand environmentally unsound competitors.

@ickn2005 Год назад

This is incredible and awesome! The creator group behind this is are some kick ass people. Nice.

@IIStaffyII Год назад

I'd watch an entire documentary about the "4th revolution of farming" sounds inspiring and healthy.

@matthewmartin1789 2 месяца назад

In the future you will have to take a mark to buy or sell anything, these centralized industrial farming practices will play a big part.

@Mezuzah87 Год назад

"With millions in funding and grants, we have applied common technology, already in use in many many many industrial fields, but to farming. We want recognition for this low low bar and to be praised as heros."

@DraxTheDestroyer Год назад

95% less chemicals almost sound like a scam, it will be amazing if this becomes a common farming equipment!

@need2connect Год назад

95% less because the tire tracks from driving up and down the field constantly would also prevent ‘weeds’ from growing. Thus creating large rows in between where you no longer need to spray… haha