Data farmers: Ag-tech startup Aigen grows AI-generated weeds to train its solar-powered farm robots

Aigen’s autonomous, solar-powered robot Element. (Aigen Photo) For years, Aigen has been building and tweaking solar-powered robots designed to pull weeds on farms. But the Redmond, Wash., startup is also raising a crop of its own: a growing, AI-generated collection of digital weeds and plants that teaches those robots what to pull.