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Farms as robots: Can an entire farm be a complex multi-component robot?
Can an entire farm be a complex multi-component robot? According to AppHarvest CTO Josh Lessing ... sure. Kind of.
AppHarvest builds greenhouses that know what's happening. Can control light. Control fertilizer and irrigation. Even control pollination, and when is the right time to harvest the crop. Plus, of course, actually harvest the crop by robot.
In this episode of TechFirst, we chat about the future of farming ... and there's a lot of technology involved.
Achieving 20-100X better productivity with 70% less water and far less CO2 emission is key. So is the development of Virgo, a…
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