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Harvesting AI: Startup’s Weed Recognition for Herbicides Grows Yield for Farmers

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✍️ Author: Scott Brown

🔖 Topics: AI, machine vision

🏭 Vertical: Agriculture

🏢 Organizations: Bilberry, NVIDIA


In 2016, the former dorm-mates at École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers, in Paris, founded Bilberry. The company today develops weed recognition powered by the NVIDIA Jetson edge AI platform for precision application of herbicides at corn and wheat farms, offering as much as a 92 percent reduction in herbicide usage.

Driven by advances in AI and pressures on farmers to reduce their use of herbicides, weed recognition is starting to see its day in the sun.

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