{"id":101214,"date":"2020-01-22T07:37:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T15:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/veggie-factory-worlds-first-vertical-farm-run-entirely-by-robots"},"modified":"2020-01-22T07:37:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T15:37:20","slug":"veggie-factory-worlds-first-vertical-farm-run-entirely-by-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/veggie-factory-worlds-first-vertical-farm-run-entirely-by-robots","title":{"rendered":"Veggie Factory: World\u2019s First Vertical Farm Run Entirely By Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/veggie-factory-worlds-first-vertical-farm-run-entirely-by-robots.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2016<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Taking vertical urban indoor farming efficiency to the next level, a new automated plant coming to Japan will be staffed entirely by robots and produce 30,000 heads of lettuce daily.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/weburbanist.com\/2016\/02\/02\/veggie-factory-worlds-first-vertical-farm-fully-run-by-robots\/\" data-featherlight=\"https:\/\/weburbanist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/spread-indoor-farm-960x640.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/weburbanist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/spread-indoor-farm-468x312.jpg\" alt=\"spread indoor farm\" width=\"468\" height=\"312\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The so-called Vegetable Factory is a project of Spread, a Japanese company already operating vertical farms. Located in Kyoto, its small army of bots will various seed, water, trim and harvest the lettuce. Spread\u2019s new automation technology will not only produce more lettuce, it will also reduce labor costs by 50%, cut energy use by 30%, and recycle 98% of water needed to grow the crops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2016 Taking vertical urban indoor farming efficiency to the next level, a new automated plant coming to Japan will be staffed entirely by robots and produce 30,000 heads of lettuce daily. The so-called Vegetable Factory is a project of Spread, a Japanese company already operating vertical farms. Located in Kyoto, its small army of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}