Seattle’s AI weed wars: One startup maps them, another zaps them

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Two Seattle-area startups are taking different approaches to an age-old farming problem: using AI to find weeds — and then eliminate them.

TerraClear is mapping individual weeds across entire fields, while Carbon Robotics is using AI-powered lasers to zap them.

Now, increasingly sophisticated AI models are giving both approaches a bigger opportunity: teaching machines to understand the farm itself. https://www.geekwire.com/2026/seattles-ai-weed-wars-one-startup-maps-them-another-zaps-them/">Read More