Carbon Robotics
AI laser weeding robot that kills weeds without chemicals or tillage.
About
Carbon Robotics builds the LaserWeeder, a tractor-pulled implement that uses high-resolution cameras and onboard NVIDIA GPUs to spot weeds in real time and kill them with 150W CO2 lasers aimed at the meristem. The deep-learning vision stack tells crops from weeds and fires within about 50 milliseconds per shot, working day or night under built-in bedtop lighting. The company reports more than 100 growers running it across 15 countries and over 100 crops, with the G2 line offered in widths from 6.6 to 60 feet.
The pitch is chemical-free, no-till weed control that sidesteps herbicide resistance entirely and replaces scarce hand-labor crews. The company claims up to 80% lower weed-control costs and a one-to-three-year payback, and it handles sales, installation and service directly with no distributors. Pricing is not published. Caveat: the headline cost and yield claims come from the vendor and early-adopter testimonials, so treat them as provider-claimed; actual payback depends on your weed pressure, acreage and labor costs.
What it can do
- Deep-learning computer vision that distinguishes crops from weeds
- 150W CO2 lasers with millimeter accuracy, firing every ~50ms
- Day and night operation with bedtop lighting
- LaserThinning mode for automated crop thinning
- On-site training, implementation and 24/7 direct support
Setup
Contact sales for a farm assessment; LaserWeeder ships with on-site training and implementation handled directly by the company.
Prerequisites
Row-crop or bed-based specialty crop operation; tractor to pull the implement.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 8/10
Scored 8/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: 100+ growers across 15 countries and 100+ crops (provider-claimed); $70M Series D in 2024, $157M total raised; NVIDIA GPU-powered vision stack. Strengths: category-defining product, direct-service model, real deployments with named growers (Taylor Farms, Tanimura & Antle). Docked for: (1) headline cost/yield claims are vendor-reported, not independently benchmarked; (2) closed proprietary platform with no published pricing. License: Proprietary hardware + software; purchase agreement.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 8.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 8.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 4.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 8.0/10
- · 100+ growers across 15 countries and 100+ crops (provider-claimed)
- · $70M Series D in 2024, $157M total raised; NVIDIA GPU-powered vision stack
- · Named deployments: Taylor Farms, Tanimura & Antle, Cal-Organic, Braga Fresh
- · manual review: headline cost/yield claims are vendor-reported, not independently benchmarked
Sources
Every fact above was checked against these sources. Where a claim comes from the provider and couldn't be independently verified, the text says so.