Iron Ox, a California-based technology startup, is pioneering the future of robotics and indoor agriculture. After years of research and development, the company is launching the world’s first autonomous farm featuring a 1,000-pound (450kg) mobile robot, nicknamed Angus. As alumni of robotics company Willow Garage, Iron Ox co-founders Brandon Alexander […]

Crop One Holdings, a Silicon Valley food startup, and Emirates Flight Catering (EKFC), one of the world’s largest airline catering operators, plan build a 130,000-square-foot vertical farm in Dubai. Vertical farms grow crops indoors and year-round without natural sunlight or soil. The facility will be the largest of its kind, […]

Amazon veteran Brian Donato has joined Bowery, a vertical farming startup that grows greens indoors without natural sunlight or soil. At Amazon, Donato managed the company’s automated fulfillment operations. Donato was hired to help Bowery scale up, according to Bloomberg. Other vertical farming companies have faced challenges around energy efficiency, […]

The vertical farming startup Plenty just announced that it plans to build 300 organic, indoor farms in or near Chinese cities. In late 2017, the company scored $US200 million in the largest-ever ag-tech deal. The funding round was led by Softbank Ventures and included DCM Ventures as well as funds […]

By 2050, the world will need to feed 9.7 billion people – 2.4 billion more than today. A growing movement of people believes that indoor farming could be a solution to the increasing demand for food. Instead of natural sunlight, crops grow under LED lights and in a nutrient-rich water-based […]

Something is growing underneath La Chapelle, a neighbourhood north of central Paris. It’s an underground farm by Cycloponics, a local indoor farming startup that harvests lettuce, herbs, and mushrooms in a space it calls la caverne (the cave). The farm uses an agricultural technique called hydroponic farming, in which greens […]

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Antarctica’s nonstop winters make it impossible to grow food outdoors. Fruits and vegetables are instead shipped long distances from overseas, just a few times per year. But in 2017, engineers at the German Aerospace Center (GAC) built a high-tech greenhouse that will allow Antarcticans to harvest produce. The farm can […]

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