Harvesting innovation: The story behind Tortuga’s autonomous harvesting robots

Eric Adamson, CEO and co-founder of Tortuga, joins us on this episode to debate agricultural robotics. Tortuga is likely one of the agtech firms main the cost to rework greenhouse farming with their autonomous harvesting robots. Eric discusses the difficulties and successes of growing robots to be used in greenhouses, shedding mild on the processes concerned in harvesting strawberries, grapes, and tomatoes. This episode provides an intriguing look into how expertise and agriculture are influencing the way forward for meals manufacturing, from overcoming design limits to investigating artistic options.

Episode Timeline

26:15   Interview with Eric Adamson, from Tortuga AgTech

In the information this week

• • Figure AI raises whopping $675M to commercialize humanoids
    • With the Series B funding, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based firm is now valued at $2.6 billion. Microsoft, OpenAI Startup Fund, NVIDIA, Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, Jeff Bezos (by way of Bezos Expeditions), Parkway Venture Capital, Intel Capital, Align Ventures, and ARK Invest have been among the many traders. Qatalyst Partners supplied strategic and monetary recommendation to Figure.
    • Figure AI stated it is going to work with OpenAI on the following era of AI fashions for humanoids. This will likely be completed by combining OpenAI’s language analysis with Figure’s robotics {hardware} and software program experience.
    • Figure stated it is going to use Microsoft Azure for AI coaching, storage, and servers.
    • This is shot throughout the bow for Tesla and the Optimus crew, nevertheless it actually provides gasoline the race to commercialize humanoids.
  • Electric Sheep Robotics launched Verdie, a brand new robotic utilizing its proprietary synthetic intelligence and software program.
    • Electric Sheep goals to be the primary large-scale outside upkeep firm powered by AI and robotics.
    • Verdie makes use of AI to grasp the lawns round them and effectively look after them, stated Electric Sheep. Based on current advances in generative AI, ES1 is a learned-world mannequin that permits reasoning and planning for each robots.
  • One extra replace: On final week’s present, the Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus had simply efficiently landed on the moon, however what we didn’t know on the time was that it tipped over within the remaining moments of the touchdown process.
    • It was alleged to survive for 14 days, earlier than the lunar night time, nevertheless it solely lasted every week, and stopped transmitting yesterday.