Soft Robotics Wants To Give Your Food Robot Good Eye-Hand Coordination
Football wide receivers that can catch the ball well are said to have soft hands. Food robots who use too much force grabbing delicate produce are, well, just being robots. […]
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With Pea Protein on the Rise, Producers Aim for Innovation in Fields and Factories
It’s easy enough to identify pea protein in nutritional powders and shakes in grocery store aisles. But if you look closely at product labels, you’re also likely to find pea […]
Ai Palette Raises $4.4M USD for Trend-Predicting Tech
Singapore-based Ai Palette announced today that it has raised $4.4 million USD in an oversubscribed Series A round. The round was co-led by Exfinity Venture Partners and pi Ventures, with […]
AeroFarms Partners With Nokia to Build Out Drone Control and Other Indoor Ag Tech
Vertical farming company AeroFarms announced today an official partnership with Nokia Bell Labs to further develop the technology capabilities of its industrial-scale indoor ag operation. Currently, New Jersey-based AeroFarms uses […]
Danone Expands Brightseed Partnership to Uncover Hidden Healthy Compounds in Plants
Danone and Brightseed announced an expanded partnership today that will have the food and beverage giant using Brightseed’s Forager artificial intelligence platform to uncover more phytonutrients from additional plant-based ingredients. […]
Domino’s Used More Tech to Address Labor Challenges in Q2
For Domino’s, combatting the restaurant industry’s current labor shortage means adopting more tech to make operating procedures more efficient. Speaking on this week’s earnings call, CEO Ritch Allison said his […]
Halla Raises $4.5M for Its Food Recommendation Platform
Halla, the AI-powered production recommendation service for grocery retail, announced today that it has raised $4.5 million in Series A1 funding, led by Food Retail Ventures. This brings the total […]
Wageningen University Launches the Third Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge
Netherlands-based Wageningen University is holding the third edition of its Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge, where international teams compete to grow crops in greenhouses using AI and automation. A first and second […]
Babylon Micro-Farms Gets $1M Grant to Further Develop Its Software for Controlled Ag
Babylon Micro-Farms, which operates a network of indoor grow systems in foodservice venues around the U.S., has received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation, with the potential […]
There’s More to Food Waste Innovation Than Tech, According to ReFED’s Dana Gunders
This being The Spoon, a lot of our discussions around food waste concern the innovative technologies that could help us eventually curb the multi-billion-dollar problem and meet national and international […]
Hungryroot Raises $40M Series C for its Predictive Grocery Service
Hungryroot, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to power its personalized online grocery service, announced today that it has raised a $40 million Series C round of funding led by the […]
Why 10-Minute Grocery Startups Are Not the Next Kozmo.com
Spoon readers of a certain age will undoubtedly remember Kozmo.com, the turn-of-the-century online service that would deliver snacks, magazines, DVDs and more to you in under an hour. Have a […]
