Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge 2022: to grow lettuce using only AI
This year, five top-ranked international teams compete to grow lettuces entirely without human intervention in Wageningen University’s high-tech experimental greenhouse.
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Wageningen University launches third, 100 per cent Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge – with lettuce
In Wageningen’s third Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge, international teams swill compete to grow the most profitable indoor lettuce crop from seed, entirely without human intervention.
Fewer food miles for fresh-vegetable supplies to China’s cities
China is boosting its resilience to supply-chain shocks by building high-tech vegetable-growing facilities close to cities across the nation.
Wageningen takes novel approach to showcasing students’ future food scenarios
Students from the Netherlands’ Wageningen University & Research entered a video challenge to showcase a science or tech-based solution to a current food challenge – 10 years into the future. Check out the winning videos.
AI teams outperform traditional growers in WUR’s second Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge
Wageningen University & Research’s successful second Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge yielded powerful insights and ‘globally applicable’ algorithms, with AI teams outperforming human growers.
Clustering and the Role of Agri-Food Clusters in Crisis
Roger Van Hoesel, Managing Director of renowned Dutch agrifood cluster Foodvalley NL, delivers this informative lecture on how successful clusters in the agrifood space can contribute in crisis situations.
New high-tech ‘quarantine’ greenhouse to run on broad-spectrum LEDs
Wageningen, the Netherlands’ premier protected-cropping research institute, has chosen a broad-spectrum LED solution from Fluence for its Serre Red greenhouse, which will conduct critical research into the world’s most costly crop diseases.
Help for agrifood-tech start-ups scaling up
Start-ups that surmount the ‘proof-of-concept’ hurdle have a better shot at attracting investors, but the scale-up stage comes with its own challenges, and expert support during this time can be vital.
Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge: the quest to grow fruit and veg remotely continues
The world’s in lockdown but cherry tomatoes grow on, minus human contact, in the greenhouses at Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands.
Tiny bat-like drones eradicate greenhouse insect pests
PATs’ tiny bat-like drone is ‘an artificial predator’ that hunts down harmful insects in greenhouses and kills them mid-air. ‘revolutionising an industry with a sustainable solution’, claim the micro-drone’s Dutch developers.