Consumers are demanding more digital offerings from restaurants, but new technologies are creating unexpected pain points for operators.
The VC firm 7percent Ventures is confirmed as lead investor, having plowed in £200,000. By the time of close, a total of 1,759 investors had backed the round.
RootWave owes its electrical spark of inspiration to years of earlier efforts from the CEO’s father who had been trying out ways to electrify weeds in the 1980s
One of the robo-stars of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was a slightly wacky invention from Switzerland: a robot that has been
Naïo co-founder Gaëtan Séverac is bullish about the imminent and radical adoption of agri-robots; his company placed signs at its recent event calling for an “agrobolution.”
The Netherlands-based alt-protein company is one of a small number catching investor interest for farming insects for human consumption rather than for animal feed.
Next week I’ll be singing au revoir Londres, bonjour Toulouse! as I fly to France for the International Forum of Agricultural Robotics, known by its French acronym of FIRA.
So far, checkout-free technologies appear to be using the same recipe of technology: will they be forced to diversify or die?
Smart AG offers a driverless tractor technology to help farmers upgrade existing equipment to tackle time and labor challenges while DOT designs and manufactures ready-made autonomous equipment.
The startup’s robots roam around poultry houses floors to encourage more bird movement and to prevent hens from laying eggs outside designated nest boxes.
The Greek tech startup will use the funds to support commercialization of its real-time device that analyzes crops and manages input application.
Zebra Technologies helps mega corporations like Disney tackle the issue of food safety with its smart tech. Read on to find out why it’s important.
I tucked into my first ever breakfast in Israel early this Sunday morning faced with a blatantly biblical reminder, but there’s nothing typical about the future milk and honey being developed by the country’s booming foodtech scene.
The Pittsburgh-based startup has developed 40 different robots to shave labor costs so that it can offer produce at a competitive cost.
The robotics-as-a-service company helps farmers weed their crops and hopes to move into other applications in the future like plant health and monitoring.
Using different languages to order your food could soon become a moot point at McDonald’s drive-thrus, with the company’s acquisition of Apprente — a two-year-old startup that’s been making impressive strides in voice recognition software.
“Bellwether Coffee has a dream team of sustainability and coffee experts and is addressing a large market ripe for improvement,” Nancy Pfund, managing partner at DBL Partners, tells AFN.
The Amazon Rainforest is being whittled away by one of the most massive blazes in history. Could tech have prevented it?
Yamaha Motor Ventures’ Nolan Paul tells AFN the biggest challenges for robotics and why he thinks Advanced Farm Technologies will go all the way.
For the last several months, I’ve been monitoring the roll-out of robo-chefs in restaurants and I’ve started visiting them. Here’s what I thought of Spyce in Boston.
How Indian agritech can help address climate risks