Agriculture today faces chronic labor shortages and growing challenges around herbicide resistance, as well as consumer backlash to chemical inputs. Smarter, more sustainable approaches are needed to secure the ongoing production of fresh produce within the United States. In this session, Xiong Chang, CEO of Tensorfield Agriculture, will introduce his company’s unique robot, which uses high-speed computer vision to enable extremely precise, pesticide-free robotic weeding. He’ll also highlight some of the key challenges his team faced in developing the robot. He’ll explain Tensorfield’s business model and show how its technology has the potential to save millions of dollars in labor and material costs for some of the largest growers in the United States. And he’ll share how Tensorfield plans to scale its business.