Podcast: Robo-restaurants, AI mapping farmland and CRISPR tomatoes
Podcast: Robo-restaurants, AI mapping farmland and CRISPR tomatoes
Carlos Rodela, Michael Wolf, Molly Wood | Spoon | July 30, 2024
Here are the stories covered in this week’s [The Spoon Tech] show:
- Tomatoes are thirsty crops. Here’s how CRISPR gene-editing could help them thrive with less water
- Food recycler Mill unveils pilot study results
- Meatly gets the nod to sell cultivated meat in UK
- Chipotle’s founder realizes he needs a few humans in the front of house
- Google-backed company launches AI platform to map the entirety of the world’s farmland
- And more!
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