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IGrow PreOwned 8/5/21 IGrow PreOwned 8/5/21

AI Is Learning To Understand How Vegetables Taste

With the global demand for food escalating, vertical farms are becoming a critical component of agriculture's future. They use robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to automate farming and perfect the growing of greens and vegetables.

IGrow PreOwned 7/2/21 IGrow PreOwned 7/2/21

Robots Take Vertical Farming To New Heights

Braddock, Pa., is where Andrew Carnegie first mass-produced steel. The city, now one-tenth its former size, is home to a new kind of industry: robotic farms that grow greens inside buildings

IGrow PreOwned 6/13/21 IGrow PreOwned 6/13/21

Farm Tech Startup Iron Ox Appoints Impossible Foods and Tesla Veteran Rachel Konrad as First Independent Board Member

Iron Ox growing facilities use advanced robotics to precisely cultivate perfect, nutritious produce by giving each plant the specific attention it needs, and then getting it on a store shelf nearby within about a day of harvest

IGrow PreOwned 4/27/21 IGrow PreOwned 4/27/21

USA: TEXAS - Iron Ox Breaks Ground On New Robotic Growing Facility In Lockhart

The state-of-the-art indoor facility will be fully dedicated to growing techniques harnessing the power of robotics and intelligence, enabling Iron Ox to grow sustainable, local produce to serve the Texas community

IGrow PreOwned 4/17/21 IGrow PreOwned 4/17/21

VIDEO: Indoor Farming Powered By Robotics And Technology - Plenty

Indoor farming powered by robotics and technology is enabling one California company to grow 'Plenty' of flavorful nutrient-rich and pesticide-free produce

IGrow PreOwned 2/12/21 IGrow PreOwned 2/12/21

UNFI Picks Up Living Greens Farm Products in Midwest Expansion

Living Greens Farm (LGF), the largest vertical, indoor aeroponic farm in the US that provides year-round fresh salads, salad kits, microgreens and herbs, announced the addition of significant new retail distribution of its products in the upper Midwest to independent, specialty, and co-op retailers

IGrow PreOwned 2/5/21 IGrow PreOwned 2/5/21

This Startup Wants Vertical Farmers To Hire A Robot Gardener

“By automating the production with robotics and remote monitoring, we can lower labor costs and offer solutions for food producers that are economically viable and environmentally sustainable,” the company claims on their website.

IGrow PreOwned 1/8/21 IGrow PreOwned 1/8/21

VIDEO: How 2 Hong Kong Pioneers’ Hi-Tech Robotic Arms Can Transform Traditional Industries And Research

Technology created at Jonathan Cheung’s Inovo Robotics performs repetitive tasks that can cultivate sustainable crops and process foods in automated kitchens

IGrow PreOwned 12/24/20 IGrow PreOwned 12/24/20

100% Robotization Allows Constant Quality Produce

"One of the biggest bottlenecks for most vertical farms is labor-intensity and associated costs. Our first focus was to reduce manual handling," says Ard van de Kreeke, Growx's CEO and founder

IGrow PreOwned 11/10/20 IGrow PreOwned 11/10/20

Autonomous Delivery Startup Nuro Hits $5 Billion Valuation On Fresh Funding of $500 Million

Nuro, the autonomous delivery startup founded by two former Google engineers, has raised $500 million, suggesting that investors still have an appetite for long-term pursuits such as robotics and automated vehicle technology

IGrow PreOwned 10/20/20 IGrow PreOwned 10/20/20

The Farm Of The Future Might Be In Compton. Inside A Warehouse. And Run Partly By Robots

Plenty wants to build at least 500 of these vertical farms around the planet, especially in densely populated cities of at least 1 million people

IGrow PreOwned 8/30/19 IGrow PreOwned 8/30/19

Fresh Produce, Brought To You By Robots

IN SAN CARLOS, CALIFORNIA, UNDER LED lighting in a controlled, 8,000-square-foot environment, a team of autonomous robots is whirring night and day between rows of leafy greens

IGrow PreOwned 7/9/19 IGrow PreOwned 7/9/19

Indoor Farmers Bet On Robots, AI

While the first versions of modern vertical farms sprouted about a decade ago, in recent years the introduction of automation and the tracking of data to regulating light and water has allowed them to get out of lab mode and into stores. Now they are trying to scale up

IGrow PreOwned 6/20/19 IGrow PreOwned 6/20/19

Robots Are Already Farming Crops Inside This Silicon Valley Warehouse

Indoor farming company Plenty’s new, bigger operation wants to deliver fresh greens, any time of year. And its robot farm workers help it optimize growing conditions to make the most delicious produce

IGrow PreOwned 5/23/19 IGrow PreOwned 5/23/19

Robot Farming Startup Iron Ox Sells First Produce In California

Robot farming startup Iron Ox has announced that it’s selling robot-reared leafy greens in a single location in California

IGrow PreOwned 3/23/19 IGrow PreOwned 3/23/19

Does AI Hold The Key To A New And Improved “Green Revolution” In Agriculture?

Producing enough healthy food to feed the world—on a changing planet—is going to be a steep challenge. These researchers are giving farmers AI-driven techniques and tools to find solutions

IGrow PreOwned 11/29/18 IGrow PreOwned 11/29/18

Robots, Hydroponics, 'Hands In The Dirt': A Look At Who — Or What — Will Feed Us In The Future

When you picture a dinner plate 20 or 30 years from now, what do you see? Lab-grown meat? Gene-edited crops? Superfoods? Or, something like Soylent?

IGrow PreOwned 10/17/18 IGrow PreOwned 10/17/18

New Autonomous Farm Wants To Produce Food Without Human Workers

Iron Ox isn’t like most robotics companies. Instead of trying to flog you its technology, it wants to sell you food. As the firm’s cofounder Brandon Alexander puts it: “We are a farm and will always be a farm.” But it’s no ordinary farm.

IGrow PreOwned 8/28/18 IGrow PreOwned 8/28/18

Vertical Farms Tended By Robots To Make Harvesting More Efficient

Vertical urban farms tended by robots that grow vegetables — and even rear chickens, fish, and lobsters — in hundreds of stacked boxes have been designed by online grocer Ocado.

IGrow PreOwned 7/17/18 IGrow PreOwned 7/17/18

Why You Should Hope Your Next Tomato’s Grown Indoors by Robots

Since 2013, about US$2 billion has been invested in hundreds of agricultural technology startups, according to CB Insights senior analyst Zoe Leavitt, who spoke about the future of food at a recent Techonomy conference in New York.