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The ability to use robots for weeding means we can start to replace outdated and potentially dangerous herbicide applications ...
Aigen's Element robot uses solar power and AI to provide farmers with a sustainable alternative to herbicides, working ...
Oblivious to the punishing midday heat, a wheeled robot powered by the sun and infused with artificial intelligence carefully combs a cotton field in California, plucking out weeds. - Aigen has robots ...
Despite agtech’s cool-down, weeding is emerging as a hot topic among venture capitalists.
Herbicides against weeds pollute food, but are essential in agriculture. Really? Robots can remove weeds in an ...
REDMOND, Wash., April 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aigen, the agricultural technology company helping to reduce chemical use through smarter farming, today unveiled its Element gen2 robot for ...
The company behind the robots, Aigen, was founded by Rich Wurden, an ex-Tesla engineer, along with former Proofpoint executive Kenny Lee in 2020.
Aigen has robots running in tomato, cotton, and sugar beet fields, and touts the technology's ability to weed without damaging the crops. Lee estimated that it takes about five robots to weed 160 ...
Aigen believes its Element robots can help. Ex-Tesla engineer Rich Wurden and former Proofpoint product lead Kenny Lee founded a company called Aigen, based in Kirkland, Washington, to end the ...
Aigen has robots running in tomato, cotton, and sugar beet fields, and touts the technology's ability to weed without damaging the crops. Lee estimated that it takes about five robots to weed 160 ...
Aigen's solar-powered autonomous robots aim to take the chemicals and toil out of industrial weeding. Josh Edelson; Aigen CEO Kenny Lee and CTO of Aigen Richard Wurden hope to win over typically ...