I know about it, too. I have these permanent ridges on my hands, near the thumbs from handling hoes (the gardening type). I used to spend hours and hours on the weeds only to be doing it again in a week or two. I must say though, it gave me time to commune with myself!!

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Farming Robot Kills 200,000 Weeds Per Hour With Lasers

This is really great news! 

I grew up on a farm and my dad would pay me $5 an hour to weed since I was a young kid.

It's incredibly labor intensive and to this day my 70 something father spends a good chunk of his time out there doing weed control in one form or another. 

People forget how big of a deal our food supply is, how fragile the production systems are. Right now industrial ag is basically a machine for turning diesel fuel into human consumable calories, and the efficiency is 10:1 - so it takes 10 calories of fuel for 1 calorie of food on our plate. 

This is some of the best news I've seen in a while, thank you 👍