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# Carbon Robotics has created an AI system for weed destruction with robots

Seattle-based company Carbon Robotics has introduced a new Large Plant Model (LPM) AI model. It can instantly recognize plant species for weed control, reports TechCrunch.

The company develops LaserWeeder robots that use lasers to weed agricultural fields. Its new LLM is trained on over 150 million photos and data collected by the company’s machines on more than 100 farms across 15 countries.

The model now forms the core of Carbon AI — an AI system that acts as the brain for autonomous bots.

CEO of Carbon Robotics, Paul Mikesell, explained that before the LPM, when a new weed species appeared, the company had to create new data labels to retrain the machines. This process took about 24 hours.

Now, the model can instantly recognize a new harmful plant species, even if it has not encountered it before.

Founded in 2018, Carbon Robotics began developing the LPM shortly after delivering its first machines in 2022.

The new system will be available to company clients after software updates. With it, farmers can specify what to destroy and what to protect by selecting photos.

Carbon Robotics has raised over $185 million in venture capital.

As a reminder, in February 2025, Figure introduced its own AI called Helix for integration with robots. According to the creators, the model can “reason like a human.”