{"id":114422,"date":"2020-10-14T21:22:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T04:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/alphabets-new-moonshot-is-to-transform-how-we-grow-food"},"modified":"2020-10-14T21:22:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T04:22:53","slug":"alphabets-new-moonshot-is-to-transform-how-we-grow-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/alphabets-new-moonshot-is-to-transform-how-we-grow-food","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet\u2019s New Moonshot Is to Transform How We Grow Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alphabets-new-moonshot-is-to-transform-how-we-grow-food2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mineral\u2019s plant buggy looks like a platform on wheels, topped with solar panels and stuffed with cameras, sensors, and software.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>But maybe there\u2019s a better way\u2014and Mineral wants to find it.<\/p>\n<p>Like many things nowadays, the key to building something better is data. Genetic data, weather pattern data, soil composition and erosion data, satellite data\u2026 The list goes on. As part of the massive data-gathering that will need to be done, X introduced what it\u2019s calling a \u201cplant buggy\u201d (if the term makes you picture a sort of baby stroller for plants, you\u2019re not alone\u2026).<\/p>\n<p>It is in fact not a stroller, though. It looks more like a platform on wheels, topped with solar panels and stuffed with cameras, sensors, and software. It comes in different sizes and shapes so that it can be used on multiple types of crops (inspecting tall, thin stalks of corn, for example, requires a different setup than short, bushy soybean plants). The buggy will collect info about plants\u2019 height, leaf area, and fruit size, then consider it alongside soil, weather, and other data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mineral\u2019s plant buggy looks like a platform on wheels, topped with solar panels and stuffed with cameras, sensors, and software. But maybe there\u2019s a better way\u2014and Mineral wants to find it. Like many things nowadays, the key to building something better is data. Genetic data, weather pattern data, soil composition and erosion data, satellite data\u2026 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,412,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-genetics","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114422","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}