The Engineering Edge Podcast - S2 E5: Expansion Pack

The everyday tech growing the future of food

In this expansion pack for Episode 5 - Lucy talks to (at the time of recording) Ocado’s Chief Technology Offer Paul Clarke about the future of food production and distribution including:

Vertical farming - lowering the footprint on the environment, along with using ony 5% of the water, less impacts like soil errosion, water & air polution and much more.
Dark kitchens - robots assembing / cooking meals without human intervention.
Digital twin - taking all the real world data and feeding it back into a simulation model to gain insights and optimisation to flow back into the realworld.

To listen to the main episode to hear the episode Growing the Future of Food or follow Lucy as she build her own monitoring and watering solution with The Grove Smart Plant Care Kit for Arduino.

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