Carbon Robotics, a leader in AI-powered robotics, introduced its LaserThinning technology, continuing the rapid innovation of its state-of-the-art LaserWeeder. LaserThinning targets areas where vegetable crops are purposefully overseeded and then thinned for optimal crop spacing, growth and yield. This is particularly valuable for farmers growing any direct seeded leafy green and cole crops such as lettuces and broccoli.
Researchers in Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania last year began releasing Ganaspis brasiliensis, a stingless, gnat-size insect that is the natural enemy of spotted wing drosophila in its native Asia.