As a way to meet growing demand for its wildly popular, sustainably grown premium strawberries, Jersey City-based vertical indoor grower Oishii will begin using robots to assist with farming tasks. In ...
Feb. 4 (UPI) --Scientists with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say a new breed of tiny flying robots that weigh ...
They’ve been pushing hard on vertical farming, which is basically growing crops in stacked layers, often inside buildings. It ...
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 ...
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So, vertical farming. It’s this idea of growing food upwards, like stacking shelves of plants, usually inside.
Your next package of lettuce could be coming straight outta Compton. Last week, I toured a 100,000-square-foot indoor vertical farm operating in a gritty part of Compton, California. The urban farm ...
Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video Producer for CNET. He covers future tech, sustainability and the social impact of technology. He is co-host of CNET's "What The Future" series and Executive ...
When Brandon Contino and co-founder Dan Chi were developing Four Growers’ produce-harvesting robots, they practically lived in a greenhouse for an entire year. They coded at a small desk tucked in the ...
Swing by the Summit or Jersey City farmers markets later this month and, in addition to peaches, you’ll find strawberries for sale. Market regulars might raise an eyebrow at this: the choicest local ...