Ecorobotix enters turf care with new precision sprayer

Ecorobotix has unveiled the ALBA Ultra-High Precision (UHP) Sprayer, designed specifically for professional turf and grassland weed management. ALBA will be showcased in full at the GCSAA Conference and Trade Show.

“Greenkeepers today are navigating high expectations for turf quality alongside growing interest in more efficient and sustainable practices. With our ALBA UHP Sprayer, they can achieve both, sustainability without compromise and precision without complexity.” said Pierre Le Naour Vernet, turf product manager at Ecorobotix.

The ALBA UHP Sprayer leverages the company’s signature plant-by-plant care philosophy, treating only what’s needed, exactly where it’s needed. Powered by Ecorobotix’s plant-by-plant AI, the ALBA can identify and spray individual weeds or unwanted grasses with a 3-by-3-centimeter (1.2-by-1.2-inch) footprint, allowing users to “spray the size of a golf ball,” according to the company.

Other benefits to the new sprayer include:

• Reduces chemical use, saving budget and protecting the environment.
• Minimizes manual spot-spraying and hand labor, freeing teams for other maintenance tasks.
• Enables the safe use of non-selective herbicides, targeting weeds such as annual bluegrass (Poa annua), crabgrass, dallisgrass, goosegrass, white clover, broadleaf plantain and nutsedge — without harming healthy turf.

“ALBA represents a genuine change in how we think about weed management in turf,” said James McCurdy, Ph.D., professor and turfgrass extension specialist at Mississippi State University. “The ability to precisely target weeds while dramatically reducing non-target exposure opens new doors for both efficacy and stewardship.”