Two established Seattle startups partner to create profitable, end-to-end solutions for kitchens using mobile ordering, automated food production, and self-service pickup solutions Picnic Works, a Seattle-based developer of kitchen automation technology, today announced a partnership with Minnow Technologies, a neighbouring Seattle IoT startup that has developed the Pickup Pod™, a self-service pickup solution for foodservice operators. The partnership leverages the expertise of both … [Read more...] about Picnic & Minnow Partner to Offer Automated Solutions for Food Service
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Pinduoduo launches 3rd Smart Agriculture Competition
Data scientists and agricultural researchers will make their way to Shanghai this year to test their lettuce-growing skills in Pinduoduo’s Smart Agriculture Competition. Now in its third edition, participants in the annual precision farming competition will be putting their computing algorithms and agronomy skills to work cultivating lettuce inside shipping containers in a vertical farming challenge. Vertical farming is a form of controlled environment agriculture that uses hydroponics and … [Read more...] about Pinduoduo launches 3rd Smart Agriculture Competition
New NUS Research Centre on Sustainable Urban Farming seeks high-tech solutions to boost Singapore’s food security
The S$10 million centre brings together interdisciplinary experts – such as plant and food scientists, engineers as well as computer scientists – to develop novel solutions for urban farming In the face of challenges posed by climate change, population increase, and potential food-chain disruptions caused by pandemics and natural calamities, ensuring an adequate supply food for the coming decades requires a significant change in crop growing. A solution to alleviate food supply disruptions … [Read more...] about New NUS Research Centre on Sustainable Urban Farming seeks high-tech solutions to boost Singapore’s food security