FarmWise and its weed-pulling agribot harvest $14.5M in funding

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Automating agriculture is a complex proposition given the number and variety of tasks involved, but a number of robotics and autonomy
companies are giving it their best shot
in the prototype stage, these vehicles look like giant lumbering personnel carriers or the like, but are in fact precision instruments which
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proof of concept than anything.Well, it seems to have proved the concept
The new $14.5 million round, led by Calibrate Ventures, is likely due to the success of these early trials
This is far from an easy problem, so going from idea to nearly market-ready in under three years is pretty impressive
And tiny issues or error rates can lead to enormous problems with the vast monoculture fields that make up the majority of U.S
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they could build more than a handful of the machines with that kind of money
plant in their fields?