Buying guide
LaserWeeder vs FD20 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 | FarmDroid |
| Form factor | agriculture | agriculture |
| Maturity | commercial | commercial |
| Availability | internal-onlyenterprise | internal-onlyenterprise |
| Price | Not announced | Not announced |
| Capability claims | — | — |
| Brain | — | — |
| Verified deployments | 4 | 1Aarhus |
| Privacy practices | — | — |
| Sources on file | 10 | 7 |
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.
FD20
FarmDroid (founded 2018 in Vejen, Denmark, by brothers Jens and Kristian Warming) makes the FD20, a solar-powered autonomous field robot that both sows and mechanically weeds row crops in a single machine. There is no consumer price: it is B2B agricultural equipment, not a product sold to consumers. Lightweight at about 1,250 kilograms and powered by four solar panels with a roughly 1.6 kWh battery for 18-24 hours of operation, it uses 8-millimeter RTK-GPS to record the exact position of every seed at sowing, which lets it weed precisely between and within rows before the crop even emerges, herbicide-free. It has seen strong adoption in European organic farming and is at commercial maturity: by the company's own reporting it has sold more than 500 robots across 26 countries since first sales in 2019, on an independently corroborated growth curve, and it raised EUR 10.5 million in October 2024 to expand from organic into the conventional market. Several verified-vs-claimed points: claims of being the world's best-selling robot in this niche are marketing and not asserted; the herbicide-free description applies to the base configuration (the optional +Spray module micro-doses chemicals); and the North American presence remains early-stage trials rather than commercial scale.
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