Agricultural robotics pioneer Carbon Robotics, based in Seattle, officially launched a new artificial intelligence model called "Large Plant Model" (LPM) on Monday, aiming to revolutionize weed control efficiency in farmlands. As the new "brain" of the company's laser weeding robot LaserWeeder, LPM is trained on over 150 million high-quality labeled images collected from 100+ farms across 15 countries, giving it an in-depth understanding of plant structures.

Farmland, Harvester, Agriculture, Farm (2)

Compared to traditional processes that required 24 hours for data labeling and retraining, LPM achieves "zero-shot learning" for plant recognition. This means that even if farmers encounter weed species they have never seen before, the robot can instantly identify and accurately remove them.

Founder and CEO Paul Mikesell stated that this breakthrough allows farmers to specify crops to protect or weeds to eliminate through the robot's UI interface in real time, without any technical intervention.