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Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge 2022: to grow lettuce using only AI

February 8, 2022

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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Overcoming obstacles in Australia’s food and beverage supply chains

July 14, 2021

Australia’s food and beverage supply chains are being held back by ageing technology, underinvestment in digital and a lack of data-driven insight, says Accenture’s Jordan Griffiths, who offers some recommendations to manufacturers.

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Wageningen University launches third, 100 per cent Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge – with lettuce

July 2, 2021

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.

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Fewer food miles for fresh-vegetable supplies to China’s cities

June 8, 2021

China is boosting its resilience to supply-chain shocks by building high-tech vegetable-growing facilities close to cities across the nation.

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Israeli start-up’s flying fruit-pickers harvest hard-to-reach fruit, reducing waste

November 26, 2020

Ingenious Israeli company Tevel has developed fruit-picking bots to speed and streamline harvesting, able to pick fruit even from the tops of trees up to five metres high. Tevel claims the return on investment is an impressive three weeks.

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Panel discussion: How the New Norm is Impacting the Food and Beverage Factory of the future

October 1, 2020

In this panel discussion hosted by Food&Beverage Industry News, keynote speakers from industry discuss COVID-19’s likely impact on food and beverage manufacturing going forward.

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Greenhouse tomato industry abuzz about new pollinating robot

September 25, 2020

An autonomous pollinating robot designed by Israeli company Arugga is being trialled at Costa Group’s multi-million-dollar Tomato Exchange facility in Guyra, NSW.

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Search and destroy: DPI, UNE and QUT scientists join forces to develop weeding robot

August 4, 2020

The Federal Government has pledged $2.9 million to a multi-partner project under the new ‘Kelpie’ CRC-P that aims to automate the labour-intensive job of controlling weeds in pasture.

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Protected cropping and food-supply-chain resilience

July 21, 2020

Australia-based crop scientist Oula Ghannoum discusses how tech-enabled protected cropping can boost food-supply-chain resilience – right now, and in a post-pandemic world.

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AI teams outperform traditional growers in WUR’s second Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge

June 22, 2020

Wageningen University & Research’s successful second Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge yielded powerful insights and ‘globally applicable’ algorithms, with AI teams outperforming human growers.

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