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Where Traptic’s Robotic Harvesting Fits in a Post COVID-19 World
As the coronavirus reveals cracks in the food supply chain, it makes Traptic’s mission even more urgent.
Empty grocery store shelves. Piles of fruits and vegetables left to rot. Meat factories shut down. Workers at risk. The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the cracks in our food production system, stunned the nation, and made one thing very clear: the time to fix it is now. In fact, it was yesterday.
Cultivating Intelligence in Agricultural Robots | TC Sessions: Robotics + AI 2020
The benefits of robotics in agriculture are undeniable, yet at the same time only getting started. Lewis Anderson (Traptic) and Sebastien Boyer (Farmwise) will compare notes on the rigors of developing industrial-grade robots that both pick crops and weed fields respectively, and Pyka’s Michael Norcia will discuss taking flight over those fields with an autonomous crop-spraying drone.
Traptic Uses 3D Vision and Robotic Arms to Harvest Ripe Strawberries
Traptic CEO, Lewis Anderson, and Co-Founder, Vinh Phan, demo our strawberry picking robot live at the Startup Battlefield at Techcrunch Disrupt SF 2019!
See it here: https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/02/traptic-uses-3d-vision-and-robotic-arms-to-harvest-ripe-strawberries/
Missed Traptic at TechCrunch Disrupt? You’re in luck! Lewis will be at the TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics & AI 2020 at Berkeley on March 3, 2020. Get your tickets now!
Announcing Traptic - Strawberry Picking Robots
Centuries ago, we grew our food by hand, with farmers limited to manual tools and limited scale of production. And you could measure the world’s population in millions, not billions. Today we've totally mechanized the production of field crops. That means our nutritional staples - wheat, corn, soybeans, etc - are grown and harvested using giant machines. These harvest quickly, efficiently, and at enormous scale. But this technology revolution hasn't made it to most fruits and vegetables due to the delicacy required to harvest them. As a result these foods are still harvested the old fashioned way - by hand.Aside from the obvious cost and efficiency problems of harvesting manually, the supply of workers willing to work in the fields has become less predictable. Tightening immigration policy and strengthening economies in Mexico and other countries exacerbate this issue. Even a rise in wages has often been insufficient to generate the labor required…….
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