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Early California customers include Triangle Farms (Salinas), Braga Ranch / Braga Fresh (Soledad), Taylor Farms, Grimmway Farms, Terranova Ranch, and Bowles Farming Co. The LaserWeeder uses AI and flash photography to identify weeds at the sprout stage and burns them with directed laser beams, eliminating mechanical soil disruption. Priced at approximately $1.4M per unit. As of 2024, more than 100 LaserWeeders are owned and operated by growers across North America, Europe, and Australia. 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By its own reporting the product has serviced more than 250,000 acres, eliminated over 15 billion weeds, and runs as 150-plus machines on 100-plus farms across roughly fourteen to fifteen countries; a modular, faster LaserWeeder G2 line launched in February 2025. A load-bearing classification point: the LaserWeeder is a towed, pull-behind implement with no locomotion of its own, pulled through the field by a conventional tractor. Carbon's original 2021 LaserWeeder was a self-driving platform, but the company deliberately pivoted to a smart-implement format for faster payback. Its separate Carbon AutoTractor kit, launched in April 2025, is the autonomy and mobility layer: a retrofit that adds remote-supervised driverless operation to John Deere 6R and 8R tractors, at an early and limited commercial release. On funding, Carbon's own Series D release puts total funding at $157 million (a $70 million Series D led by BOND in October 2024, after a $30 million Series C led by Sozo in 2023), with an additional roughly $20 million raised in October 2025 for a new undisclosed robot; an aggregator figure of about $276 million is not primary-verified and is not asserted here.","formFactor":"agriculture","industryVertical":"agriculture","environment":"outdoor","maturityStage":"commercial","lifecycleState":"active","supersededByModelId":null,"specs":{"notes":[{"label":"Verified (commercial)","value":"Carbon Robotics (founded 2018, Seattle WA; founder/CEO Paul Mikesell) ships the commercial LaserWeeder, which uses computer vision + high-power lasers to kill weeds. Deployment: 250,000+ acres serviced, 15B+ weeds eliminated, 150+ machines on 100+ farms across ~14-15 countries. LaserWeeder G2 (modular, faster) launched Feb 2025."},{"label":"Form-factor nuance (load-bearing)","value":"The LaserWeeder/G2 is a TOWED, pull-behind IMPLEMENT with no locomotion of its own (a tractor pulls it). Carbon's ORIGINAL 2021 LaserWeeder was a self-driving platform; the company deliberately pivoted to a 'smart implement' format for faster ROI. The separate Carbon AutoTractor (ATK, launched Apr 2025) is the autonomy/mobility layer: a retrofit kit for John Deere 6R/8R, remote-human-supervised, at early/limited commercial release."},{"label":"Verified-vs-claimed (funding)","value":"Total funding is $157M as stated in Carbon's own Series D release ($70M Series D led by BOND, Oct 2024; earlier Series C was $30M led by Sozo, 2023). An additional ~$20M was raised Oct 2025 (GeekWire) for a new undisclosed robot. The aggregator figure of ~$276M is NOT primary-verified and is not asserted. 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