November 2024

YC-backed Four Growers builds robots to help solve greenhouse labor shortages

When Brandon Contino and co-founder Dan Chi were developing Four Growers’ produce-harvesting robots, they practically lived in a greenhouse for an entire year. They coded at a small desk tucked in the back corner and discovered that fertilizer bags can be comfortable beds. “We actually started just running everything off a laptop, and I would be …

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AgroSpheres engineers microbes to produce stable, biobased pesticides

Encapsulating RNAi, proteins, and other biomolecules helps wean agriculture off synthetic chemicals by Britt E. Erickson November 8, 2024 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 102, Issue 35 Shiny gold letters hang on AgroSpheres’ lobby wall spelling out the start-up’s vision: a future built by nature’s technologies. At the opposite end of …

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