“Farmers may soon have an alternative to spraying their fields with chemicals.”
Two startup companies are combining “to develop a high-precision robot that can kill weeds with a zap of electricity.”
“Dick, a weeding robot, can already remove unwanted plants with either a micro-dose of pesticide or by physically crushing them, but the next stage will be to combine this with technology from RootWave, which destroys weeds by with an electric current, essentially boiling them from the inside out.”
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