Commercialise your inventions
This is a chapter from a book Practical Precision Livestock Farming published by Wageneingen in 2022 in which I wrote about my experience of trying to commercialise my inventions both as a government scientist and commercial entrepreneur. I describe four…
Can robots save UK horticulture ?
Growing food was for thousands of years, and in much of the world still is, a set of backbreaking monotonous but skilled tasks. It was done by humans in all weathers from scorching to freezing from burning dry to continuously coal and soaked. It was…
Invasion of the non-Hollywood Robots
A great show of the latest field robots in 2022
1989 and 2022 turning points
I was asked recently by a friend why I am so engaged with Ukraine on LinkedIn. There is a short answer, I went there before the invasion a couple of times and saw the scale and beauty of the country and its resilience and I was emotionally pulled into…
Unsettled with real food in Tuscany
We need to shorter supply chains and local production
Autonomous Robots Moving Fast
The FIRA industry conference and show series is focused on autonomous field machines which have become of huge interest given labour shortages particularly in high value vegetable and fruit crops. This year’s show was held at the Diagora conference…
This could N badly
Last week I visited North West Scotland on a short holiday. It is a land of stunning open spaces, glaciated volcanic lumps and mountains interspersed with wide valleys, green and lush at this time of year. The green vegetation is not grass though, but a…
Robots on the Strawberry Highway
It was very good to wake up on Sunday to hear a programme about tests of robots to track up and down rows of hydroponic strawberries killing off powdery mildew with UV light, no pesticides needed. Click here https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000ydnb I…
Codebreaker: The significance of RNA manipulation and its risks
I suggest that anyone interested in the sudden expansion of the capabilities of RNA coding reads The Codebreaker by Walter Isaacson about the competition and collaboration in developing the CRISPR technologies in cutting splicing genetic sequences to…