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A New Season for Mineral: Dispersing Technology into the Agriculture Ecosystem

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Agriculture: Our wisest pursuit

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Towards horizontal agriculture

Our technology has evolved as we’ve learned in the field

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Mineral: Bringing the era of computational agriculture to life

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Bringing the era of computational agriculture to life

An early Mineral engineer in the field, coding and running Mineral perception technology to see strawberries in an unprecedented way

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A Tanzanian bean farmer, in partnership with the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, and Mineral, sharing the fruits of his labor

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M is for Mineral

The Mineral rover uses machine learning to instantly detect important crop traits such as plant size, leaf color, or flower count. The pods are brightly colored to make it easier to differentiate all the objects in the image - giving it this "disco vision" effect.

The Mineral rover detecting different plant trait

Inside the Alliance's genebank, which contains the world’s largest collection of beans

Inside the Future Seeds genebank

Mineral and the beanstalk

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Mineral plant perception

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Machine learning is imperfect. That’s why it’s ideal for agriculture.

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For example...

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Brainpower vs. horsepower: an alternative future for ag equipment

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A massive expo hall at Agritechnica 2023 where agriculture equipment and technology companies show off their latest offerings. 

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Systemic Problems Need Systems-Thinking

A typical factory powered by steam through a tangle of belts and pulleys.

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Plant perception gif, Sept 2023

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Are we underestimating AI's likely impact on the food system?

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What got us here won't get us there: Can we reimagine agtech partnerships to think big and derisk fast?

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Why is it so difficult to predict the future of agriculture?

Problem: how to inspect 13’ tall corn? First Approach: convert our 5’ rover into a 13’ rover. Rapid Iteration Approach: quickly prototype a ‘skinny’ rover

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Our plant rover “examines” some strawberries

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Rapid iteration

When rapid iteration is the strategy

Our team of experts in AI and ML, combined with our forward thinkers in agriculture, are fostering new understanding of a more sustainable future. If you want to know where agriculture is heading, dig in.

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