Carbon Robotics

What is Carbon Robotics?

Carbon Robotics builds AI-powered farm machines, led by the LaserWeeder G2, which uses lasers for weed control. Its Carbon AI Large Plant Model, trained on 150 million labeled plants across 15 countries and 100 crops, powers its machines.

Key capabilities of Carbon Robotics

• LaserWeeder G2: laser-based weed control
• Carbon Autonomy: tractor autonomy for John Deere 6R, 8R, 8RX and 8RT (2019+)
• Carbon AI: Large Plant Model for plant identification
• Remote supervision: operator oversight with manual override
• Retrofit install: fits existing tractors without permanent modifications
• Cost reduction: up to 80% lower weeding cost versus traditional methods

How Carbon Robotics works

The Large Plant Model identifies crops and weeds, and the LaserWeeder G2 targets weeds with lasers instead of herbicide or hand labor. Carbon Autonomy installs on supported John Deere tractors, where remote operators supervise and can take manual control.

Who uses Carbon Robotics?

Carbon Robotics reports more than 200 growers in 15 countries. It cites yield increases of 5 to 50%, payback of 1 to 3 years and a machine lifespan of 7 to 10 years.

Carbon Robotics pricing

Carbon Robotics does not publish machine prices. The vendor cites a payback period of one to three years.

Carbon Robotics alternatives

Alternatives include Aerobotics for orchard insights, Taranis for field imagery analytics and Roboflow for building custom computer vision models.