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🎥 Can Picker AgRobotics’ Dr Octopus-style arms finally crack autonomous fruit harvesting?

“There’s no gripper,” says cofounder and CEO Yossi Rosenblum. “We just approach the fruit, cut the stem, and let the fruit roll through the [hollow] arm.”

Agtech

Artificial intelligence

🎥 Verley progresses towards 200,000-L tanks as precision fermentation enters its prove-it phase

Rather than compete with commodity whey, Verley is targeting high-value applications where purified BLG can deliver distinct functionality.

Alternative protein

Biomanufacturing & biologicals

🎥 Can Picker AgRobotics’ Dr Octopus-style arms finally crack autonomous fruit harvesting?

🎥 Verley progresses towards 200,000-L tanks as precision fermentation enters its prove-it phase

🎥 Resurrect Bio reawakens plants’ natural defenses: ‘It’s very targeted, almost like personalized medicine’

EU looks to speed agricultural research to market despite budget pressures

In ovo sexing hits 40% penetration in the EU. What will it take to crack the US?

🎥 Atmonia scales green ammonia with single-step electrochemical process

AgriFood Signals: Corteva & Inari settle, Starbucks scales back green goals, countries rethink climate reporting

Antobot scales UV-C robotics push with 300 deployments targeted in 2027

Austrian alt meat startup Revo Foods targets profitability by Q3 2027 as 3D-printing scales up

FBN and Google team up to give farm AI the context it’s been missing

Exclusive: ArkeaBio raises $15m for livestock methane tech, cuts headcount

Exclusive: FOOD FOUNDERS Studio secures new funding to build its next two foodtech ventures

Exclusive: Believer Meats creditors weigh bid for US plant after UPSIDE Foods exit

Guest article: When nutrition becomes an evidence-based intervention, capital follows

🎥 Meatly bets on 20,000-liter scale to prove cultivated meat economics

Exclusive: Plantik and Hudson River Biotechnology team up to de-risk heat-tolerant strawberries

🎥 Eclipse Ingredients scales human lactoferrin platform: ‘We’re executing at a speed that is unheard of in this space’

Guest article: There’s a market for saline agriculture. It just needs a boost

🎥 What is agrihealth—and can it become an investable category? The First Thirty makes the case

AgriFood Signals: Confido raises $55m to help CPGs, Tesco backs Henry Dimbleby’s fund, UPF food labeling

Sound Agriculture launches seed-applied biological to preserve yields on high ammonium corn acres

🎥Agrifood VC needs a different playbook, says Pymwymic: “Corporate venture capital needs to step in earlier”

🎥 Carbon Robotics: $100m+ revenue, new machine and a path to IPO

The Mixing Bowl says it’s still ‘early days’ for crop robotics but AI, M&A are driving advancement

Impossible Foods makes UK retail debut at Tesco… without its flagship heme protein

Virtual fencing is no longer hype. Now it has to prove itself a trustworthy tool

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