Carbon Robotics partners with iMerit to power instant in-field AI customization
Carbon AI is trained on 150 million labeled plants, enabling farmers to start laser weeding any field or crop in minutes. | Credit: Carbon Robotics Carbon Robotics is bringing the era of foundation models to the farm. The company has replaced its collection of crop‑specific AI vision models with a single “large plant model” that understands plant structure across regions and species, allowing farmers to instantly tune Carbon’s laser weeder to their own definition of crops and weeds. Unlike tradi
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Carbon Robotics has developed a foundation model for agriculture that allows farmers to customize an autonomous laser weeder for different crops and weeds without time-consuming retraining. Instead of requiring new AI models for each crop or region, farmers use an iPad app to tag a small number of plants from their own fields as "crop" or "weed," and the foundation model instantly adjusts its behavior to match those definitions. The partnership with iMerit involved labeling millions of plant images to train this model, scaling up from the company's initial manual labeling efforts. Carbon Robotics is also expanding into tractor automation with a kit designed to retrofit existing tractors for autonomous weeding and other farming workflows.
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