Indoor farming company AppHarvest this week announced that it has acquired Root AI. The deal is valued at around $60 million, with $10 million in cash and the reminder coming from AppHarvest stock.

Chatbots aren’t cool, and their usefulness is debatable. Here’s how we can do better with AI than a chatbot. The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, ...

Most farmers can tell at a glance if their crop is ready to harvest. Josh Lessing has a robot that can do that, too. Lessing is cofounder of startup in Somerville called Root AI, which is developing ...

Kentucky-based agtech and vertical farming company AppHarvest has acquired artificial intelligence firm Root AI and its robotic universal harvester Virgo to maximize its sustainable harvesting methods ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Root AI's main product is a robot named Virgo, which is ...

The Boston-based startup has already been getting a fair bit of press (including on these very pages) with the promise of produce-picking robotics. This week it announced a seed round of $7.2 million, ...

In most practical situations, there are two major sources where inherited biases are created. Today we are going to discuss the final battle in dealing with AI bias. That is, how can we fix the root ...