On: Monsanto’s Weed Killer, Dicamba, Divides Farmers

[Kyragem]

Monsanto needs to do a 180 and develop & research low cost weeding robots. GMO engineering solutions are only a stopgap measure

[mnw21cam → Kyragem]

Agreed. Plants can develop resistance to herbicides, but they can't really develop resistance to being dug up.

Although the dandelions and bindweed in my garden would be prominent counter-examples.

[topspin → mnw21cam]

I suspect that 10 years from now the notion of carpet bombing a field with anti-weed chemicals will seem stupid as simple weed hunting robots deal with the problem automatically.

Dandelions need sunlight too. Assuming your weed bot keeps the plant reduced to a leafless stub the roots will die eventually.