Farm
Carbon launched the second-generation LaserWeeder G2, in five set-ups for different farm sizes.
A dated step forward on the record · Company-reported · Sets LaserWeeder's stage
What the source says
“Carbon Robotics launched the second generation of its laser weeding product.”
What it means
LaserWeeder, from Carbon Robotics, is at stage 4 of 5 on our ladder: paying customers. This event is one of the milestones that placed it there. This line rests on the company's own announcement; no regulator, customer or independent report confirms it in our sources yet.
Human help: The maker hasn't said whether people help it remotely.
More on LaserWeeder
- Carbon Robotics had raised $177 million in total by February 2026.
- Carbon says LaserWeeders are working on hundreds of farms in 15 countries.
- US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. praised the LaserWeeder as a way to cut weed killer use, if it can be made affordable for smaller farms.
- Carbon said its machines had helped growers weed more than 250,000 acres.
- Carbon Robotics showed its 2022 LaserWeeder, a tractor-pulled machine with 30 lasers.
- The 2022 LaserWeeder sold out, with orders from carrot grower Grimmway Farms among others, and Carbon took pre-orders for 2023.