Carbon Robotics, a Seattle-based firm led by Isilon Systems, Co-Founded by Paul Mikesell, has unveiled its self-driving robot, which employs a combination of robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), and laser technology to effectively and safely ride through farmlands to detect, target, and eradicate weeds. The farming robot has the appearance of a huge cube on wheels. Its 12 cameras scan the field as it drives down rows of crops. Weeds are identified by an AI-powered onboard computer, and the robot's carbon dioxide lasers zap and destroy the plants without damaging the soil. The fully automated system runs on diesel and can cover 15 to 20 acres (6 to 8 ha) every day, with its lasers leaving the surrounding soil uninterrupted to protect its microbiology.

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NIIGATA/KYOTO - Self-driving tractors, tomato-picking robots, camera-mounted drones to survey fields and spot crop damage, and satellite data from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to help farms keep track of climate and weather data. At over a dozen booths beside the G20 farm ministers' meeting venue earlier this month in the Sea of Japan city of Niigata, agricultural organizations and technology firms touted products and services they see as necessary tools to ensure a prosperous future for agriculture. "In today's Japan, the aging of farmers has become an issue, and the overall population of the country is decreasing. Collaboration between agriculture and nonagricultural sectors, such as satellite technology, IoT ("internet of things," internet connectivity into physical devices like tractors) and artificial intelligence has a key role to play in fostering agricultural innovation," said Susumu Hamamura, parliamentary vice minister at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. The increased use of easily accessible data on tablet computers and smartphones to provide farmers with a wide range of agricultural data was a key message at the Niigata conference.