Indoor farming pioneer strengthens Smart Farm model with new capital infusion to scale automated strawberry production, expand retail footprint across the US and Japan, and deepen its precision ...

Oregon startup Canopii is tackling food supply challenges by launching automated, tennis court-sized greenhouse franchises ...

On a special episode (first released on November 20, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: AI applications in vertical farming have the potential to usher in a new model that not only yields a high volume of ...

Picture a farm in Avondale growing leafy greens. Maybe you’ve imagined small plants swaying in the breeze alongside the road. But at one West Valley farm, the plants have never seen the sun. These ...

HUBBARD, Ore. — About a decade ago, David Ashton and Justin Gravett were college roommates studying engineering at California Polytechnic State University. Now the friends are trying to change the ...

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Hiroki Koga is the founder of Oishii vertical strawberry farm, where everything from wind speed to temperature is controlled with the help of AI robots to produce the berries year-round. It's one of ...

Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed advanced robotic insects that could aid farming through artificial pollination. They could prove especially useful in the ...

One of the world’s most high-tech indoor vertical farms is located in Compton. We visit to understand the role indoor farming plays in the future of food. The background: Compton was once an ...

Vertical farming has come under fire in the past, with opponents blasting its high energy usage and cost. So, will new findings to mitigate these drawbacks, silence the critics? The modern concept of ...

Much has been made of the AI race between the U.S. and China as the two national powers jockey for leadership in the world's fastest-growing industry. To some Western observers, China's progress in ...