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By Mark Tyson published August 28, 2025
Nvidia and Carbon Robotics’ tractor-pulled device is designed to kill large areas of weeds
Carbon Robotics LaserWeeder G2 packs in 24 high power lasers and 24 Nvidia GPUs to facilitate its claimed “10,000 weeds per minute” zapping performance.
That's equivalent to 600,000 weeds per hour, or 167 weeds per second.
The ‘Large Plant Model’ weed identification system, ensures your crops don’t fall to friendly fire.
The robotics device is also a massive labor saver, outperforming “a hand crew of 75 people,” according to the product pages for the G2 600 model.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-i...eath-for-pesky-weeds#xenforo-comments-3885403
Carbon Robotics’ story began not in a lab, but over lunch in Idaho. Founder Paul Mikesell asked a farmer about his biggest challenges. The answer was simple — and ancient: weed control.
That conversation led to an audacious solution. The company’s LaserWeeder G2 spans 20 feet and carries 12 modules, each powered by two NVIDIA GPUs — 24 in total. This compute muscle lets it identify and incinerate up to 10,000 weeds per minute, without chemicals.
Every LaserWeeder doubles as a data-gathering machine. Images from the field feed into a custom labeling tool, building what the team believes is the world’s largest labeled agricultural image dataset: over 65 million images, fueling the company’s “large plant model,” a play on the large language models that power chatbots like ChatGPT.
When GPUs finish their tour on the farm, they head to Carbon’s “retirement facility” — a Seattle-based data center — where they’re used to train the next generation of models. Optimized with NVIDIA TensorRT, the resulting foundational model works across all crops, creating a durable competitive edge.
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2-million-robotics-developers/#carbon-robotics
LaserWeeder packs two dozen Nvidia GPUs and lasers to zap your weed problem, vaporizes ‘600,000 weeds per hour' with sub-millimeter precision — instant laser death for pesky weeds
NewsBy Mark Tyson published August 28, 2025
Nvidia and Carbon Robotics’ tractor-pulled device is designed to kill large areas of weeds
Carbon Robotics LaserWeeder G2 packs in 24 high power lasers and 24 Nvidia GPUs to facilitate its claimed “10,000 weeds per minute” zapping performance.
That's equivalent to 600,000 weeds per hour, or 167 weeds per second.
The ‘Large Plant Model’ weed identification system, ensures your crops don’t fall to friendly fire.
The robotics device is also a massive labor saver, outperforming “a hand crew of 75 people,” according to the product pages for the G2 600 model.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-i...eath-for-pesky-weeds#xenforo-comments-3885403
Carbon Robotics’ story began not in a lab, but over lunch in Idaho. Founder Paul Mikesell asked a farmer about his biggest challenges. The answer was simple — and ancient: weed control.
That conversation led to an audacious solution. The company’s LaserWeeder G2 spans 20 feet and carries 12 modules, each powered by two NVIDIA GPUs — 24 in total. This compute muscle lets it identify and incinerate up to 10,000 weeds per minute, without chemicals.
Every LaserWeeder doubles as a data-gathering machine. Images from the field feed into a custom labeling tool, building what the team believes is the world’s largest labeled agricultural image dataset: over 65 million images, fueling the company’s “large plant model,” a play on the large language models that power chatbots like ChatGPT.
When GPUs finish their tour on the farm, they head to Carbon’s “retirement facility” — a Seattle-based data center — where they’re used to train the next generation of models. Optimized with NVIDIA TensorRT, the resulting foundational model works across all crops, creating a durable competitive edge.
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2-million-robotics-developers/#carbon-robotics
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