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Ultimately drones may enable purely-mechanical pesticide-free removal of each individual insect/weed.

Reminds me of the mosquito laser. It would target only female mosquitos of the specific breed (they are the malaria carriers). It was only prototyped and never commercially produced.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser

> It was only prototyped and never commercially produced.

aka Vaporware

Indeed. These are often predictable outcomes when there is lack in economy of scale or scope.

I saw a video where this company is doing exactly that for weeds:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=V3A6L2Dao6s

Great idea, I hope it works.

For weeds, this is already a thing. There are weed bots that kill with fire and others that kill with lasers.

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