
Ocado spends $287m in retail robotics double-swoop
The UK firm is buying two US startups, with CEO Tim Steiner seeing “significant opportunities” in robotic manipulation solutions for online retail and logistics.
The UK firm is buying two US startups, with CEO Tim Steiner seeing “significant opportunities” in robotic manipulation solutions for online retail and logistics.
Variations in color mean that defining quality parameters for fresh produce has traditionally been a complex affair. But AI is changing that.
Trials already indicate how a precision method like Greeneye’s can reduce a farmer’s herbicide usage by 65‒92%, according to Greeneye.
IntelloLabs is working to solve the logistical and potentially brand-busting challenge of quality control in the high-value crops industry using computer vision.
What does a CPG company want with smart checkout technology, you ask? Data, and lots of it.
So far, checkout-free technologies appear to be using the same recipe of technology: will they be forced to diversify or die?
The €6.6 million Series A was led by the Russian early-stage tech investor RTP Global. The round was joined by Piton Capital with existing investors participating, including Atlantic Labs and Index Ventures.
The UK startup has developed a smart kitchen tool that helps restaurants account for their food waste to see where they can improve.
Trigo’s technology uses computer vision and AI to see what shoppers put in their carts, charging their accounts when they walk out the door. Tesco invested just after its Series A round.
Through its Genetic Traits Detection Platform, the company is hoping to make seed selection more accurate and reliable for farmers.
iUNU hopes to take some of the manual data-entry aspects of greenhouse operation into the 21st century by automating as much of the process as possible.
Connolly, who worked at Alltech for over 25 years, has often been referred to as the fourth founder of Cainthus.
Bowery Farming, the New York-based indoor farming group, has closed a $90 million Series B round of funding in a round led by Google’s venture
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Within seconds Cainthus imaging technology can identify individual cows by their features, memorize their unique identity and record individual patterns and movements.
Ramanan interviewed the e-commerce giant in her capacity as a World Economic Forum Global Shaper — a network of teams of young people committed to solving global problems.
Today dairy is our most efficient form of animal protein delivery, but large efficiency improvement opportunities remain and dairy tech can help.
With the price of hyperspectral cameras falling fast, the new imagery on the block is poised to have a big impact on food and agriculture among other industries.
FarmWise has developed a weeding robot that uses computer vision to identify weeds and robotics to remove them from vegetable farms without herbicides.
ImpactVision, a software startup using hyperspectral imaging to help food supply chain companies determine the quality and ripeness of food products, has raised $1.3 million in seed funding in a round led by Acre Venture Partners.
Biological innovation is key to the economic & environmental sustainability of CEA