Weedbot
AI detection and laser weeding for organic farms
Active Next round Seed Latvia HardwareAgtechSoftwareThe world is transitioning to pesticide-free, organic farming. But the most efficient way to kill the weeds that steal the crops’ nutrition is with pesticides. On organic farms farmers are forced to rely on manual weeding. Manual weeding is done by placing workers, face down, on a trailer to pull the weeds from the ground, by hand. It is hard and straining work that attracts fewer and fewer workers, whilst the need for them increases.
Weedbot have created a weeding machine that uses a camera and AI to detect weeds what are weeds and what are crops, and then kill the weeds with high precision lasers.
Last updated October 17, 2024
Founding team
Janis Jasko, CEO
Coming out of Latvia University of Life Sciences and TechnologieLatvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, where he met his co-founders, Janis has worked within plant life for several years before founding Weedbot.
Aldis Pecka, CTO in mechatronics
Aldis came straight out of university with a masters degree in Information Technology from Latvia University of Life Sciences and TechnologieLatvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies
Andrejs Kostromins, CTO in software
The software CTO has had jobs as software engineer both in the private and the public sector, before teaming up with his co-founders.
Articles
New investment Weedbot aiming to make organic farming more affordable
02/08/2023 @ Accelerace
WeedBot raises €425 000
12/05/2023 @ Labs of Latvia
Laser weeding by WeedBot for minimum till cultivation
19/04/2023 @ Agri-techE
Weedbot works faster and more accurate with Enot technology
08/06/2022 @ Future Farming
Established: 2020
Investment: 2022
Our investment thesis
Farmers cannot get the farm workers they need, and our planet cannot endure the current use of pesticides. The amount of organic produce will increase and the amount of available labour for this type of work will decrease.
This solution solves the worker deficit and at the same time reduce the cost of weeding significantly for farmers, making organic produce cheaper.
