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Massachusetts Institute of Technology The winners of this year’s Rabobank-MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize got a good indication their pitch was striking a chord when a judge offered to have his company partner with the team for an early demonstration. The offer signified demand for their solution – to say nothing of their chances of winning the pitch competition. The annual competition’s MIT-based grand-prize winner, Human Dynamics, is seeking to improve sanitation in food production plants with a robotic drone – a “drobot” – that flies through facilities spraying soap and disinfectant. The company says the product addresses major labor shortages for food production facilities, which often must carry out daily sanitation processes. ....