Carbon Robotics LaserWeeder: Price, Availability & Status (2026)

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This is B2B agricultural equipment, not a consumer product. From Carbon Robotics (Seattle), the LaserWeeder has serviced 250,000-plus acres on 100-plus farms across roughly 14-15 countries.

Real-world status

Carbon Robotics' LaserWeeder combines computer vision with high-power lasers to kill weeds without chemicals, anchoring the laser-weeding task type of DEPLOY's agriculture cohort. It is at commercial maturity: by the company's 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, with 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 adding 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; an aggregator figure of about $276 million is not primary-verified and is not asserted, and the deployment figures are company-reported.

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