Buying guide
LaserWeeder vs CNH Raven Autonomy (Case IH / New Holland) in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
| Attribute | No image on file | No image on file |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Carbon Robotics | CNH Industrial |
| Form factor | agriculture | agriculture |
| Maturity | commercial | commercial |
| Availability | internal-onlyenterprise | internal-onlyenterprise |
| Price | Not announced | Not announced |
| Capability claims | — | — |
| Brain | — | — |
| Verified deployments | 4 | 1Springfield |
| Privacy practices | — | — |
| Sources on file | 10 | 8 |
Editorial summaries
LaserWeeder
Carbon Robotics (founded 2018, Seattle; CEO Paul Mikesell) makes the commercial LaserWeeder, which combines computer vision with high-power lasers to kill weeds without chemicals. There is no consumer price: it is B2B agricultural equipment, not a product sold to consumers. By its own reporting it has serviced more than 250,000 acres, eliminated over 15 billion weeds, and runs as 150-plus machines on 100-plus farms across roughly 14-15 countries; a modular, faster LaserWeeder G2 launched in February 2025. A load-bearing classification point: the LaserWeeder is a towed, pull-behind implement with no locomotion of its own (a conventional tractor pulls it). 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 (April 2025) is the autonomy and mobility layer, a retrofit that adds remote-supervised driverless operation to John Deere 6R and 8R tractors, at early and limited commercial release. On funding, Carbon's own Series D release puts total funding at $157 million (a $70M Series D led by BOND in October 2024); an aggregator figure of about $276 million is not primary-verified and is not asserted, and the deployment figures are company-reported.
CNH Raven Autonomy (Case IH / New Holland)
CNH Industrial (NYSE: CNH; brands Case IH and New Holland Agriculture) runs its agricultural-autonomy program through Raven Industries, which it acquired in 2021 for about $2.1 billion. There is no consumer price: it is B2B agricultural autonomy, not a product sold to consumers. DEPLOY catalogs the entity under the CNH parent rather than a single brand because the autonomy IP is owned at the CNH level and deployed identically across Case IH and New Holland. It is at commercial maturity for its shipping automation and retrofit features: the OMNiPOWER self-propelled platform (2020) and OMNiDRIVE driverless grain-cart retrofit (2021), Raven Cart Automation (commercial from mid-March 2024), the Raven Autonomy Driverless Tillage Solution (2024 model-year), and Sense & Act targeted spraying plus combine, planter, and baler automation. A verified-vs-claimed point: the headline cab-less robot tractor is not shipping: it traces to a 2016 cabless Autonomous Concept Vehicle that was never productized, and the R4 Autonomous Robot Family remains a proof-of-concept as of Agritechnica 2025, with CNH's own November 2025 materials describing broad factory-fit Autonomous Tillage as in development, Passive Implement Guidance launching in 2026, and Green-on-Green spraying in 2027. Importantly, CNH's autonomy asset is Raven Industries, not Bear Flag Robotics (which belongs to John Deere).
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