VR Lettuce Thinner

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VR Lettuce Thinner is an Agricultural-Robots from Vision Robotics. It is built for Agriculture, Spraying. Key figures: released 2012.

The VR Lettuce Thinner is Vision Robotics' tractor-mounted, vision-guided machine that automatically thins lettuce and other leafy crops by recognising each plant and spraying the unwanted ones. Lettuce growers asked the company to develop it in 2011, the first unit was delivered in 2012 and is still in operation, and the design is now in its fifth generation. Its software uses neural-net AI that identifies specific crops and weeds from a growing plant database covering lettuce varieties, kale, chard and collards, and the fifth-generation design works in fields with line spacing under 7.5 inches. The system is modular, with one self-levelling hooded module per seed line, a single 12 V power connection per line and wireless communication between lines and the tractor; a side-shift keeps the hoods aligned with the rows, an optional second spray applies a beneficial alongside the thinning chemical, and V5 modules mount more easily, run on 8-line beds, adjust their own height and can have separate side-shift per bed. Thinners can be built with any number of hoods, for small or large farms.

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