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September 10, 2012 09:00 pm GMT
Computer vision/robotics company Blue River Technology announced today that it has raised a $3.1 million Series A round of funding from Khosla Ventures. Steve Blank, Ulu Ventures and Stanford Angels and Entrepreneurs also participated.Blue River is designing weed elimination robots for agriculture. No, the company's not making marijuana crop destructobots -- these machines will kill the bad kind of weeds that farmers would otherwise use chemicals, or a legion of weed pullers, to destroy. Khosla Ventures founder Vinod Khosla claims that Blue River's technology can reduce herbicide use in the U.S. by 250 million pounds a year.
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Blue River Technology Raises $3.1 Million To Build Robots To Replace Chemical Herbicides
Computer vision/robotics company Blue River Technology announced today that it has raised a $3.1 million Series A round of funding from Khosla Ventures. Steve Blank, Ulu Ventures and Stanford Angels and Entrepreneurs also participated.Blue River is designing weed elimination robots for agriculture. No, the company's not making marijuana crop destructobots -- these machines will kill the bad kind of weeds that farmers would otherwise use chemicals, or a legion of weed pullers, to destroy. Khosla Ventures founder Vinod Khosla claims that Blue River's technology can reduce herbicide use in the U.S. by 250 million pounds a year.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/0otsiN8X3us/
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