{"id":2497,"date":"2021-08-14T12:46:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T10:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/14\/ten-years-ago-this-was-science-fiction-the-rise-of-weedkilling-robots\/"},"modified":"2021-08-14T12:46:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T10:46:06","slug":"ten-years-ago-this-was-science-fiction-the-rise-of-weedkilling-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/14\/ten-years-ago-this-was-science-fiction-the-rise-of-weedkilling-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ten years ago this was science fiction\u2019: the rise of weedkilling robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The makers of robot weeders say the machines can reduce pesticide use and be part of a more sustainable food system<\/p>\n<p>In the corner of an Ohio field, a laser-armed robot inches through a sea of onions, zapping weeds as it goes.<\/p>\n<p>This field doesn\u2019t belong to a dystopian future but to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@shayfarmkid?lang=en&amp;is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1\">Shay Myers<\/a>, a third-generation farmer whose TikTok posts about farming life often go viral.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/aug\/14\/weedkilling-robots-farming-pesticide-use-sustainable\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2b9a12ec49a4457b03fe2b3a4446683ae63e46d0\/0_605_4032_2419\/master\/4032.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2720e97e3683b0952aa63dcd9cc436c9\" title=\"\u2018Ten years ago this was science fiction\u2019: the rise of weedkilling robots\" \/>The makers of robot weeders say the machines can reduce pesticide use and be part of a more sustainable food system<br \/>\nIn the corner of an Ohio field, a laser-armed robot inches through a sea of onions, zapping weeds as it goes.<br \/>\nThis field doesn\u2019t belong to a dystopian future but to Shay Myers, a third-generation farmer whose TikTok posts about farming life often go viral. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The makers of robot weeders say the machines can reduce pesticide use and be part of a more sustainable food system In the corner of an Ohio field, a laser-armed robot inches through a sea of onions, zapping weeds as it goes. This field doesn\u2019t belong to a dystopian future but to Shay Myers, a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/14\/ten-years-ago-this-was-science-fiction-the-rise-of-weedkilling-robots\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Ten years ago this was science fiction\u2019: the rise of weedkilling robots<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}