ag tech

1 min read 2022-12-02 05:59:14

Monarch delivers its first robot tractor

Monarch Tractor this morning announced the delivery of its first MK-V unit. The “smart tractor” is electric and what the Bay Area-based company

2 min read 2022-11-17 00:32:52

The race is on to tackle our climate crisis through food and agriculture, and increasingly our social crisis. But how do we ensure that the

2 min read 2022-09-12 18:00:18

That’s not a typo. $310 million, with a zero at the end. This latest round brings Gotham Greens’ total funding up to $440 million since its 2009

1 min read 2022-03-29 04:18:56

Join 600+ entrepreneurs, investors, executives, advocates and more to explore strategies and tactics for reducing societal consumption of animal

1 min read 2022-03-08 07:26:18

Amazon-owned robotaxi firm Zoox this week announced that it has acquired Strio.AI. The Boston-based robotics startup was founded in 2020 by MIT

1 min read 2022-02-23 06:29:13

Agtech is a massive industry aching to be disrupted by robotics. It’s a big category that’s going to require a number of solutions to various

3 min read 2022-02-16 20:00:59

We’ve been charting Traptic’s progress ever since the South Bay-based startup appeared on the Disrupt Battlefield stage back in 2019. The company

1 min read 2022-01-25 23:48:30

IRobot announced Terra three years ago this week. After making some tough internal decisions to delay launch back in 2020, the robot mower is still

1 min read 2022-01-05 03:30:24

The 8R tractor has been in select customers’ hands for “a few seasons” now, according to John Deere. After all, like any kind of autonomous

2 min read 2021-12-10 23:25:10

It’s a trend that could benefit emerging agricultural technology or ag-tech companies within the cannabis space. Many of these companies either

2 min read 2021-12-08 21:00:47

During the good number of hours I’ve spent researching and writing about vertical farming in recent months, one key word keeps popping up:

1 min read 2021-10-12 19:30:00

Technology is playing an ever-increasing role in the world of agriculture and food systems. However, the current crop of Indiana tech companies

4 min read 2021-10-10 21:44:29

Roughly two hours pass between my initial email and our first Zoom chat — on a Sunday, no less. I skip the post-gym shower and pop on a baseball

1 min read 2021-09-28 18:00:28

Burro first crossed our path during our 2020 robotics event, when the agtech company competed in our pitch off. The company (which used to go by the

3 min read 2021-09-28 06:27:43

As Tom Oswald drives a tractor across a soybean field on his farm, his eyes are on a computer screen that shows his precise location, the speed of