IGrow PreOwned 6/23/21 IGrow PreOwned 6/23/21

USA - KENTUCKY: AppHarvest Announces Ground-Breaking For Fourth And Fifth High-Tech Indoor Farms

The high-tech Somerset farm marks the company’s expansion into growing berry crops. The Somerset indoor farm will be 30 acres

IGrow PreOwned 5/9/21 IGrow PreOwned 5/9/21

Robotic Warehouse Farms Will Save The World

CEA technology is just getting started. Like the Tesla Cybertruck, we have a working concept that promises a more-than-Jetson’s-level future many of us can see the benefits of and actively want―it’s just not quite available to the masses yet

IGrow PreOwned 4/30/21 IGrow PreOwned 4/30/21

VIDEO: Tortuga Raises $ 20m To Build Hundreds of Harvesting Robots

Last year Tortuga launched a strawberry harvesting robot. This platform is flexible, according to Tortuga it can be adapted to work on other crops like indoor-grown tomatoes or outdoor table grapes

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 12/29/19 IGrow PreOwned 12/29/19

Meet Angus: A Robotic Field Hand For The Autonomous Farming Revolution

Angus rolls through the Iron Ox warehouse hoisting trays into position for robotic-arms that can plant crops, add nutrients, transplant crops as they grow, harvest and ultimately package their bounty

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 10/5/18 IGrow PreOwned 10/5/18

Will America's Future Farmers Be Robots?

After raising $6 million and tinkering with autonomous robots for two years, Alexander's startup Iron Ox says it's ready to start delivering crops of its robotically grown vegetables to people's salad bowls.

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.

IGrow PreOwned 4/17/18 IGrow PreOwned 4/17/18

African Agtech Market Map: 99 Technologies Changing the Future of Agriculture in Africa

There are seven billion people on the planet and more than one-quarter of them suffer from malnutrition, mostly in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. By 2050, the global population is expected to reach 9 billion people and the number of under-nourished children to increase by 25 million.

IGrow PreOwned 2/28/18 IGrow PreOwned 2/28/18

Four Growers: Farming For The Future

Imagine being able to open a door and go from biting winds and snow to a warm, climate-controlled greenhouse that carries the aroma of fresh tomatoes — being harvested by robots roaming through the aisles.

IGrow PreOwned 2/13/18 IGrow PreOwned 2/13/18

Q&A: Driscoll’s Head of Emerging Technology On Harvesting Robotics and Open Innovation

The global berry seller has become known for its technological innovation in breeding and genetics, but the company’s focus on robotics is less well-known.

IGrow PreOwned 12/31/17 IGrow PreOwned 12/31/17

Canon Electronics Plans Full Automation At Vegetable Factory

The Canon unit will convert empty space at a Gunma Prefecture facility into an indoor farm initially dedicated to growing lettuce and other green, leafy vegetables friendly to hydroponics.