By: Futurism
October 13, 2020
X, the moonshot project incubator run by Google’s parent company Alphabet, is working on prototype robots designed to help grow everthing from strawberries to soy beans.
In a blog post, X project lead Elliot Grant discusses a new project he’s working on called “Mineral” — a suite of hardware and software tools that analyze the “complexity of the plant world.”
In other words, the goal is to get better insight into how our food grows — and quantify it, a process Mineral is calling “computational agriculture.”