World’s first selective asparagus harvesting robot is delivered to its new owner
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Google’s Alphabet pushes smart tech into farming
Farmers could get a helping hand in the form of artificial intelligence (AI) aimed at improving the production of food.
Or at least that the plan of X, the experimental tech and R&D division of Google’s parent company Alphabet.
It’s head, the excellently named Astro Teller, revealed the Alphabet’s latest AI ambitions at the EMTech Digital even run by MIT Technology Review, where he explained that machine learning could be used with drones and robots to figure out the best time to harvest crops and farm in parts of the world messed up by climate change, as well as better predicting how pests can affect food production.
“I’ve been saying for years that agriculture, food production [is] one of the biggest industries in the world, it’s one of the least digitally enabled, technology enabled industries in the world, and it’s one of the […] limiting steps for humanity,” said Teller. “So it has been true for a long time that X was like ‘we have got to do a moonshot, maybe several moonshots, in this space.” Continue reading “Google’s Alphabet pushes smart tech into farming”
Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo is Content Partner for Smart Farming Conference, which takes place on June 29, 2017, at Villa Flora, Venlo, The Netherlands.
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Satellite imagery used in management and harvesting of wine grapes. Pilot projects at four vineyards in Northern Greece have confirmed that satellite imagery may be used by agronomists and winemakers in optimising the management and harvesting of wine grapes. Vana Giavi and Penelope Richardson report Continue reading “Satellite imagery used in management and harvesting of wine grapes”
