Precision AI’s new vision system takes its first ever test flights on March 28, 2023 in Maricopa, Arizona. — Precision AI’s new vision system takes its first ever test flights on March 28, 2023 in Maricopa, Arizona.
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Cleaner Tech

AI Weed-Killing Drones Are Coming for the Mega Farms

This Canadian startup has developed an AI-enabled crop-spraying drone that reduces chemical use by up to 90%.

April 19, 2023 at 9:30 AM UTC

This article is part of the April 14, 2023 issue of Green.

For the past three years, Terry Aberhart has watched the spindly, fixed-wing drones zip across the big skies over his farm in Canada’s Saskatchewan province, testing a technology that could be the future of weeding.

Fitted with an artificial intelligence system, the drones are designed by local startup Precision AI to spot, identify and kill the weeds without drenching the entire crop in chemicals.

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