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Come With Me if You Want to Weed: Autonomous Weedinator Robot back for 2026

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According to Hackaday, the Weedinator is back. The autonomous agricultural robot first earned coverage on the maker platform in twenty seventeen as a Hackaday Prize candidate, and nine years later, it's returning with updates for twenty twenty-six. The project tackles an age-old farm challenge: removing weeds efficiently and autonomously. For the maker community, the Weedinator exemplifies the kind of ambitious, long-running hardware projects that Hackaday celebrates—practical engineering driven by passion, not quarterly metrics.

Source: https://hackaday.com/2026/06/19/come-with-me-if-you-want-...

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