Man Finally Makes the Weed-Removing Robot

Roland Piquepaille writes "According to the Ludington Daily News, Michigan, Danish agricultural engineers have built a robot to help farmers with weeds. The Hortibot is about 3-foot-by-3-foot, is self-propelled, and uses global positioning system (GPS). It can recognize 25 different kinds of weeds and eliminate them by using its weed-removing attachments. It's also very environmentally friendly because it can reduce herbicide usage by 75 percent. But so far, it's only a prototype and the Danish engineers need to find a manufacturer for distribution."

Comments

Well it's about time

[blool]

I for one, welcome our weed killing friends... As long as we remain friends.

My mortal enemy

[wawannem]

I am going to hunt this thing down and destroy every last ounce of it's evil metal body...

Right after I get up off the couch

Ho Hum, call me when they perfect the

[Ellis D. Tripp]

weed GROWING robot, or even the weed SMOKING robot..

Hmm.... lasers...

[Anonymous Coward]

From the article: (emphasis mine)

It can manually pick weeds, spray, or remove them using flames or a laser.

Now all we need are the sharks...

(Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

Why has it taken so long?

[eggfoolr]

Why has it taken so long for man to make one? Woman worked out how to do it long ago!

Obligatory Joke

[Enderandrew]

"Man Finally Makes the Weed-Removing Robot"

In other news, Bush announces a major victory in the war on drugs.

Re:Weed-removing attachments?

[Frosty Piss]

If you RTFA you will notice that lasers are in fact one of the "weed-removing attachments" they have.

So, in other words, it smokes the weed...

What would be even cooler

[transporter_ii]

What would be even cooler, would be a weed growing robot. And if they come up with this, I think a fitting name would be Bender.

Transporter_ii

Re:What would be even cooler

[MillionthMonkey]

What would be even cooler, would be a weed growing robot.

That would be awesome... if the cops catch your robot tending to the weed it can be programmed to say uhh I forgot who I'm growing this hash for man I have only so much RAM to devote to remembering things and I just can't remember who programmed me to grow all this sticky bud and there's nothing the pigs can do because your robot will be programmed to enjoy prison and be willing to spend years there in standby mode to conserve battery life but if the grower is some guy you'd have to promise him that you'll commute his sentence so he can perjure himself all he wants for you knowing you'll eventually bail him out... but under the existing system you can't do that unless you're the president who must have access to a mean supply of weed because you can see how worried he's been looking lately.

Re:What would be even cooler

[Evil Cretin]

Looks like someone has a punctuation-removing robot...

When aliens land...

[AndroidCat]

"Take me to your weeder!"

Congratulations...

[Dunbal]

I'm going to get shit for this but:

      So the Danes finally managed to clone "Mexicans"?

Re:It recognizes weeds? Excellent. What else?

[ozmanjusri]

Slow drivers! Stupid people! Luddites! Conservatives!

Sarah Connor?