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Apr 22, 2020

Miso Robotics

Posted by in categories: food, robotics/AI

Spotted on my feed.


“The new burger chef makes $3 an hour and never goes home.” — LA Times.

Flippy is the world’s first autonomous robotic kitchen assistant that can learn from its surroundings and acquire new skills over time. Specifically designed to operate in an existing commercial kitchen layout and to serve alongside kitchen staff to safely and efficiently fulfill a variety of cooking tasks. Miso is working with major QSR locations to integrate Flippy as an overhead rail system. The overhead rail system will reduce the cost to produce Flippy by 50% and requires ZERO real estate footprint.

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Apr 22, 2020

Nearly 200 COVID-19 cases force Tyson Foods to ‘indefinitely suspend’ operations at its pork processing plant in Waterloo, Iowa, but the city’s mayor says this move came ‘too late’

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food

This closure will impact the United States’ meat supply because “the plant is part of a larger supply chain,” Tyson Foods said in a statement.

Apr 21, 2020

Bactericidal nanomachine: Researchers reveal the mechanisms behind a natural bacteria killer

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, nanotechnology

In a study published in Nature, a UCLA-led team of researchers describe how the nanomachine recognizes and kills bacteria, and report that they have imaged it at atomic resolution. The scientists also engineered their own versions of the nanomachine, which enabled them to produce variations that behaved differently from the naturally occurring version.

Their efforts could eventually lead to the development of new types of antibiotics that are capable of homing in on specific species of microbes. Drugs tailored to kill only a certain species or strain of bacteria could offer numerous advantages over conventional antibiotics, including lowering the likelihood that bacteria will develop resistance. In addition, the tailored drugs could destroy harmful cells without wiping out beneficial bugs in the gut microbiome, and they could eventually offer the possibilities of being deployed to prevent bacterial infections, to kill pathogens in food and to engineer human microbiomes so that favorable bacteria thrive.

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Apr 20, 2020

The red king crab has no predator in Northern Europe

Posted by in category: food

👽 Stalin’s Crab is eating the Oceans biodiversity and tis gaining terrain as we are speaking now.


They’re multiplying in the Barents Sea. And they’re heading West. Meet the red king crabs. 🦀.

Apr 19, 2020

No evidence COVID-19 transmits through food or packaging

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food

AMES, Iowa — Over the past month, false information about COVID-19 and food and food packaging has been reported in the media, websites and blogs, and shared through social media, note food safety and nutrition and wellness specialists with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach. Angela Shaw, Anirudh Naig, and Shannon Coleman want Iowans to know there is no evidence that COVID-19 is transmitted through food and food packaging.

Shaw is a food safety state specialist and associate professor in the ISU Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition. Naig is a food safety state specialist and associate professor in the ISU Department of Apparel, Events, and Hospitality Management. Coleman is an assistant professor and nutrition and wellness state specialist in the ISU Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition.

Apr 19, 2020

COVID-19: Teenage Muslim boy from Lucknow “beaten” for buying biscuits, dies

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food

A teenaged Muslim boy from Lucknow who was allegedly beaten up by policemen while he was trying to buy food has succumbed.

The slain has been identified as Mohammad Rizwan, he has become the first fatality from purported police high-handedness in enforcing the lockdown in Uttar Pradesh.

Rizwan’s father, Mohammed Israil, said his son had felt very hungry on Thursday night.

Apr 19, 2020

Drones Use Radio Waves to Recharge Sensors While in Flight

Posted by in categories: drones, engineering, food, internet, robotics/AI

https://youtube.com/watch?v=fX2tt7etBDw

Here’s another neat thing drones can do—beam power across the sky to recharge sensors in hard-to-reach places.


Remote sensors play a valuable role in collecting data—but recharging these devices while they are scattered over vast and isolated areas can be tedious. A new system is designed to make the charging process easier by using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to deliver power using radio waves during a flyby. A specialized antenna on the sensor harvests the signals and converts them into electricity. The design is described in a study published 23 March in IEEE Sensors Letters.

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Apr 18, 2020

How did the Bubonic Plague make the Italian Renaissance possible?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, economics, food

The Black Death (1347−1350) was a pandemic that devastated the populations of Europe and Asia. The plague was an unprecedented human tragedy in Italy. It not only shook Italian society but transformed it. The Black Death marked an end of an era in Italy, its impact was profound, and it resulted in wide-ranging social, economic, cultural and religious changes.[1] These changes, directly and indirectly, led to the emergence of the Renaissance, one of the greatest epochs for art, architecture, and literature in human history.

The Impact of the Plague of Italy

To Black Death spread to Italy from modern-day Russia. Genoese merchants spread the plague while fleeing a Mongol attack on their trading post in Crimea. The plague was carried and spread by the fleas that lived on the Black Rat and brought to Italy on the Genoese ships.[2] The population of Italy was ill prepared for the spread of the disease. There had been a series of famine and food shortages in the region, and the population was weak and vulnerable to disease, and furthermore, the population did not have any natural resistance to the disease. Italy was the most urbanized society in Europe, Milan, Rome, Florence, and other Italian centers among the largest on the continent.[3].

Apr 18, 2020

Controversial ‘gene drive’ could disarm deadly wheat pathogen

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, genetics

Lab tests show potential of gene-spreading strategy to fight plant diseases.

Apr 17, 2020

One Among Hemp’s 25,000 Uses? Diversifying Commercial Agriculture

Posted by in category: food

O,.o cool plant :3.