The punishment, unaware of the afternoon heat, infected with a wheel robot and artificial intelligence operated by the sun, cautiously pushing the weeds in California.
As the farms are faced with lack of laborers across the United States and weeds become resistant to herbisides, Startup Aagen says its robotic solution – nominated elements – can save farmers’ money, help the environment and keep harmful chemicals out of food.
“I really believe that we can improve human health,” co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Richard Wordon told AFP, “co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Richard Wordon told AFP, as the robot made its way through crops in Bowls Farm in Los Banos city.
“Everyone is dining with chemicals.”
Wordon, a mechanical engineer, who spent five years in Tesla, went to work on a robot after farming relatives in Minnesota, telling him that there was an expensive ban.
According to Wordon, mournings are becoming immune for herbsides, but the lack of laborers often leave chemicals as the only viable option.
“There is no farmer whom we have ever said that ‘I am in love with chemicals’,” Aagen’s co-founder and chief executive Kenny Lee said, the background is in the software.
“They use it because it is a device – we are trying to make an option.”
The element robot looks like a large table on the wheels, the solar panel at the top. Metal weapons equipped with small blades reach the hoe between crop plants.
“It really mimics how humans work,” Lee said that the temperature hit 90 ° F (32 ° C) under a cloudless sky.
“When the sun goes down, it simply goes down and falls asleep; then it comes back in the morning and starts going again.”
The Robot’s AI system takes data from on-board cameras, allowing it to follow the rows of the crop and identify weeds.
“If you think this is a task we want to do humans, just spend two hours in the field,” Wordon said.
Aagen’s vision is for workers who once touched the heat to be “upskled” for monitoring and troubleshooting robots.
With on-board AI, robots communicate with wireless manner with small control centers, informing the handlers of accidents.
Agen has tomatoes, cotton and sugar beat robots in the beat fields, and avoids the weeding capacity of technology without damaging crops.
Lee estimated that about five robots weeds in 160 acres (65 hectares) field.
The price of the robot-satal built by the 25-person startup is $ 50,000 located in the city of Redmond.
The company focuses on winning politically conservative farmers with a climate -friendly option, depending on the sun rather than expensive diesel fuel, which gives strength to heavy machinery.
“Climate, word, has become politicized, but when you actually reach down for brass, the farmers care about their land,” Lee said.
Technology attracted the attention of e-commerce legendary veteran Cloud Computing Unit, Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Aigen was selected for AWS’s “Compute for Climate” Fellowship Program that provides AI tools, data center power and technical assistance for startups to deal with environmental crises.
“Aagen is going to be one of the future industry giants,” said AWS’s leading climate tech startups business development Lisbeth Cofman.
“I think of Ford and Model T, or Edison and Light Bulb – this is Kenny and Rich and Aagen.”
