Blue Riverās key technology is called āsee and spray.ā Itās a set of cameras that fix onto crop sprayers and use deep learning to identify plants. If it sees a weed, itāll hit it with pesticide; if it sees a crop, itāll drop some fertilizer. All these parameters can be customized by the farmer, and Blue River claims it can save āup to 90 percentā of the volume of chemicals being sprayed, while also reducing labor costs.
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