The company develops LaserWeeder robots that use lasers to remove weeds from crop fields. Its new LPM has been trained on more than 150 million images and data points collected by Carbon Robotics’ machines across over 100 farms in 15 countries.

The model now sits at the core of Carbon AI, the system that serves as the “brain” of the company’s autonomous robots.

Carbon Robotics CEO Paul Mikesell said that before LPM, the emergence of a new weed species required the company to create new data labels and retrain its machines — a process that took around 24 hours.

With LPM, the system can now instantly recognize previously unseen weed species, even if it has never encountered them before.

Carbon Robotics was founded in 2018 and began developing LPM shortly after delivering its first machines in 2022.

The new system will be rolled out to customers via a software update. It will allow farmers to specify what the machine should destroy and what it should protect by selecting images. To date, Carbon Robotics has raised more than $185 million in venture capital.