I always thought it was interesting.
Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?
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#52I am the founder of Optimal: http://optimal.ag . We are a team of engineers and scientists from DeepMind, Palantir, Oxford and MIT. Our mission is to grow safer, healthier food by deploying fully autonomous greenhouses outside every city on earth. We are backed by leading deep technology funds, including Founders Fund. We believe that high-tech greenhouses will be an important part of our agricultural future, for imp…
Whats the big difference with modern existing greenhouses, like the ones in The Netherlands?
Re: Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?
#53I'm the data science lead at http://agrian.com . Shoot me a message if you want to chat (email in profile). I love talking about this topic and trading notes.
That link doesn't seem to work, btw.
Re: Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?
#54I am the founder of Optimal: http://optimal.ag . We are a team of engineers and scientists from DeepMind, Palantir, Oxford and MIT. Our mission is to grow safer, healthier food by deploying fully autonomous greenhouses outside every city on earth. We are backed by leading deep technology funds, including Founders Fund. We believe that high-tech greenhouses will be an important part of our agricultural future, for imp…
Just curious if you are planning to open your solutions up to non-food solutions: E.g. commercially licensed cannabis cultivators? Autonomous / IoT greenhouses seem to be a big "thing" up here in Northern California where many commercial cultivators are.
Re: Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?
#55I am the founder of Optimal: http://optimal.ag . We are a team of engineers and scientists from DeepMind, Palantir, Oxford and MIT. Our mission is to grow safer, healthier food by deploying fully autonomous greenhouses outside every city on earth. We are backed by leading deep technology funds, including Founders Fund. We believe that high-tech greenhouses will be an important part of our agricultural future, for imp…
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#57They do autonomous UAVs for agricultural monitoring, using multi-spectral imaging and a computer vision pipeline to detect issues before farmers can.
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#58Im with Agfunder, we built this with Django, with thanks to https://github.com/nikolak/django_reddit
Re: Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?
#59I am the founder of Optimal: http://optimal.ag . We are a team of engineers and scientists from DeepMind, Palantir, Oxford and MIT. Our mission is to grow safer, healthier food by deploying fully autonomous greenhouses outside every city on earth. We are backed by leading deep technology funds, including Founders Fund. We believe that high-tech greenhouses will be an important part of our agricultural future, for imp…