There is no fire yet — but, in the future, weed control with robotic hoes could well become an interesting tool for conventional farmers. At the moment, organic farmers remain the driving force for much of this development as they seek less costly alternatives to the manual weeding of their crops.
Database for Deep Learning
Farming Revolution, from Ludwigsburg, just north of Stuttgart, was founded four years ago and has since taken on this autonomous weeding challenge. Originally part of the nine-strong team working on agricultural robotics and deep learning at Bosch, an image database of plants was set up, and this now contains 18 million so-called annotated images.and Artificial Intelligence (AI) uses this for image analysis.