{"id":155205,"date":"2023-01-11T18:22:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T00:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/alphabet-x-graduates-robotic-agtech-firm-mineral"},"modified":"2023-01-11T18:22:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T00:22:20","slug":"alphabet-x-graduates-robotic-agtech-firm-mineral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/alphabet-x-graduates-robotic-agtech-firm-mineral","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet X graduates robotic agtech firm Mineral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lmxrRps7DnI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A little over two years after <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/10\/12\/alphabets-latest-moonshot-is-a-field-roving-plant-inspecting-robo-buggy\/\">its public debut<\/a>, Mineral is becoming its own Alphabet company. The team, which was formerly known as the \u201cComputational Agriculture Project\u201d (no prizes for guessing why they adopted the new name), just graduated from the X \u201cmoonshot\u201d labs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter five years incubating our technology at X, Alphabet\u2019s moonshot factory, Mineral is now an Alphabet company,\u201d CEO Elliott Grant said in <a href=\"https:\/\/mineral.ai\/blog\/m-is-for-mineral\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a blog post<\/a>. \u201cOur mission is to help scale sustainable agriculture. We\u2019re doing this by developing a platform and tools that help gather, organize, and understand never-before known or understood information about the plant world \u2014 and make it useful and actionable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Years after attempting to build a robotics division largely through acquisition, Alphabet appears to be growing one more organically in-house. Mineral follows <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/08\/16\/google-robotics\/\">Everyday Robots<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/07\/23\/alphabets-intrinsic-aims-to-make-industrial-robots-more-capable\/\">Intrinsic<\/a> in growing from X to a fully released Alphabet subsidiary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little over two years after its public debut, Mineral is becoming its own Alphabet company. The team, which was formerly known as the \u201cComputational Agriculture Project\u201d (no prizes for guessing why they adopted the new name), just graduated from the X \u201cmoonshot\u201d labs. \u201cAfter five years incubating our technology at X, Alphabet\u2019s moonshot factory, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155205","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\/155205","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}