Alphabet has announced plans to shut down its agricultural engineering, AI, and robotics startup, Mineral, and license parts of Mineral to Driscoll's Inc., a company that produces berries.
Mineral monitored crop fields, autonomously scanned plants, and identified plant patterns and potential issues with crops to inform farmers about their harvests. It used sustainable hardware to power a roving robot that uses cameras, machine learning algorithms, sensors, and AI. This information helped farmers to manage the usage of fertilizers, chemicals, and water levels productively.
The company might partner with Driscoll’s, which previously used the technology to predict how many berries its crops would yield.
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