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The Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) at MIT has announced its seventh round of seed grant funding to the MIT community. J-WAFS is MIT’s Institute-wide initiative to promote, coordinate, and lead research related to water and foo
Credits: Photo: Elia Kneiriemen/J-WAFS Caption: Members of the research team (left to right:) Zi Hao Foo, Omar Labban, Grace Goon, and Annetoinette Figueroa. Credits: Photo courtesy of the researchers Caption: Mechanical engineering professors John Lienhard and Xuanhe Zhao teamed up to combine their expertise in desalination and soft materials. Credits: Photo courtesy of the researchers
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A salad mix on Paul Healey’s farm has 150 types of greens in it, but the only ones he can sell must be no more than four inches long.
His customers are primarily local restaurants, which often look for uniform vegetable sizes. It’s specifications like that, along with other barriers, that he says leads to food loss for his Lower Mainland business.
“It’s absolutely perfect food,” he says, mourning the waste. “Mizuna will only be that right size for two days, and then two days after, it’s done.”
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New Robotic Solution Wins Agribusiness Innovation Prize
Written by AZoRoboticsMay 3 2021
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who recently won the Rabobank-MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize in 2021, got a good indication that their efforts were paying off when a judge offered to have his company associate join them for an early demonstration.
This year’s Rabobank-MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize featured innovations to improve sustainability in our food system. Image Credit: MIT.
This offer represented a demand for the researchers’ solution to say nothing of their opportunities of winning the pitch competition.
Human Dynamics, the MIT-based grand-prize winner of the annual competition, is looking to enhance the sanitation in food production facilities with a robotic drone a “drobot” that flies through plants spraying disinfectant and soap. According to the company, the product deals with crucial labor shortages in food prod