Tag: automation

Africa Agri Tech 2020

February 18, 2020

Africa Agri Tech offers three days of unparalleled discovery, exploration and networking.

The event offers a multi-tiered expo and conference programme that will investigate the impact of the latest advances in science and technology, empowering agricultural producers to achieve greater efficiency, productivity and profitability going into the future.

evokeAG

February 18, 2020

evokeAG is the Asia Pacific’s largest agrifood tech event. Held in Melbourne on 18-19 February 2002, evokeAG brings together the industry’s brightest and boldest minds for a two day exploration of the up and coming agrifood tech trends.

Aker Technologies scores $2.6m for automated crop scouting tech

September 4, 2019

The St. Louis-based company is on a mission to boost precision farming with a remote monitoring and analytics platform that gives growers, retailers and suppliers better in-field insights.

Spyce up your life with robot woks: review from Boston

August 21, 2019

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.

The Road to Automated Agriculture Begins in Brazil

July 10, 2019

Solinftec could be the operating system for the autonomous farm and they've just hired a new CEO to rapidly drive the startup's global expansion, writes AgFunder founding partner Rob Leclerc.

Robot Chefs That Can Serve 5m Types of Pizza: France’s Pazzi Raises Over $11m Series A

June 17, 2019

That is rather a lot of dough for a pizzeria.

How TartanSense is Building Small Robots for Small Farms in India

April 11, 2019

TartanSense builds small land-based robots for small farms and smallholder farmers initially focused on pesticide application.

iUNU Raises $7.5m for Greenhouse “System-as-a-Service” Tech Platform Using Computer Vision

February 28, 2019

iUNU hopes to take some of the old school manual data entry aspects of greenhouse operation into the 21st century by automating as much of the greenhouse maintenance process as possible.

How Jain USA Has Quietly Built a High-Tech Irrigation Platform Through Acquisitions

November 29, 2018

I caught up with Aric Olsen, president of Jain USA, are his most recent acquisition of ETWater, a weather data analytics and sprinkler control company using machine learning to measure the evapotranspiration rate of grass.

Cargill Aims to Improve Worker Safety with Remote Controlled Herding Robot for Livestock

November 7, 2018

Cargill is bringing robots to its meat processing facilities in the hope of improving animal welfare, worker safety, and efficiency with a robotic cattle herder.

Bear Flag Robotics Raises $3.5m Seed Round to Automate Common Tasks on the Farm

September 5, 2018

The round takes Bear Flag’s total funding efforts to $4.5 million after it took part in the Y Combinator accelerator and raised a pre-seed round in the fall of 2017.

Augmenta Raises $600k Seed Round for Plug & Play Automation on the Farm

July 17, 2018

The startup manufactures a plug and play device that scans and analyzes crops as a tractor moves across the field capturing 4K video data of every inch of the field.

Phenospex Raises €2m Series A to Expand Novel Sensor Tech into Automation

July 10, 2018

With its sensor technology, Phenospex aims to get around the constraints of existing sensing options such as RGB and multispectral cameras, to address the over-use of chemicals and fertilizers in industrial farming.

Edete Raises $3m for Bee-Free Pollination Tech

June 19, 2018

Edete is developing a mechanical solution for pollination as an alternative to using bees.

Access to Capital is Biggest Challenge to Indoor Farms – Report

January 3, 2018

Indoor growers say that access to capital is their biggest hurdle, according to a new report from indoor farming software company Agrilyst.

Drones: Farmers Are Looking for True Autonomy Now That the Hype is Over

December 14, 2017

As the hype fades and more growers test out drones on their own operations, what they really want from drone-focused technology is becoming clearer and raising the bar for startups in the field.

Report: Agriculture in Top 5 Most Automatable Industries, Above Retail

October 24, 2017

In a comprehensive assessment of the potential for automation by McKinsey, agriculture ranked fourth with a 57% potential for automation, behind accommodation and food services (73%), manufacturing (60%), and transportation and warehousing (60%).

Japan’s Nileworks Raises $7.1m for Crop Spraying Drones

October 17, 2017

Nileworks claims its multi-copter drones are able to see the shape of a field and spray pesticides just 30cm above, reducing drift.

Motorleaf’s Monk on Priorities and Challenges of Being an AI Startup in Indoor Ag

July 19, 2017

We caught up with Ally Monk, CEO of motorleaf, a few months after the business raised a $1.1m seed round of funding, to get an update on how the business is progressing.