In the crop row
Selective weeding for farms. A weed is whatever you select for the rover to pull. Rows give it a clear path, and it takes those plants without touching the crop.
Pulls the weed.
Leaves the crop.
Weedsucker is a rover being built to pull only the plants you choose. You decide what counts as a weed, and it picks those out from everything growing beside them and takes them root and all.
A farm that doesn’t need herbicide
AI is starting a revolution in agriculture, and it leads to cleaner, better farming. Herbicide became the answer to weeds because no one could afford to deal with a field one plant at a time. A machine that can see each plant and decide what to do about it changes that, and we will no longer need expensive, unhealthy chemicals sprayed across the whole field to reach a few weeds.
Built for two kinds of ground
On the wild hillside
Land restoration in chaparral and grassland. Here the plants you select are non-native grasses, which grow right against natives with no rows between them, so every pull is a decision about one plant.
The technology, from sky to subsoil
What you’d see in the field sits above ground. What it grows out of is underneath.
- Mission autonomyDecides where to go next and when to stop and pull.Planned
- PerceptionTells the plants you've selected from the look-alikes growing beside them.Planned
- ManipulationGrips a single shoot low on the stem and pulls it straight up.In progress
- MobilityA small two-wheel-drive rover that can work between plants.In progress
- Synthetic dataTrains the vision model on labeled images generated in simulation.In progress
- SimulationIsaac Sim is the proving ground for everything above it.In progress
- Field hardwareLying dormant until the simulated rover has earned a real one.Planned