AI can slash indoor farming energy use

11-Sep-2024 - Integrating artificial intelligence into today’s environmental control systems could reduce energy consumption for indoor agriculture by 25% – potentially helping to feed the world as its population rises, Cornell University engineers have found.The world population is expected to grow to 9.7 ...

AI & nutrition: chatbots are only suitable for nutritional recommendations to a limited extent

Study by the University of Hohenheim: ChatGPT and Gemini create healthy nutrition plans for average people - but fail due to special diets

20-Aug-2024 - Whether breakfast, dinner or a snack: AI chatbots not only provide recipes, but also nutrition plans for different diets. A joint study by the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart and the Max Rubner Institute shows: The suggestions made by the AI chatbots ChatGPT and Gemini (previously Bard) are ...

AI against food deserts: healthy nutrition for millions

08-Aug-2024 - Vast swaths of the nation, both urban and rural, are deemed “fooddeserts” due to their reduced access to a variety of healthy and inexpensivefood. Often, people living infooddeserts also experience higher poverty levels. “In the U.S., we have a major issue regarding the inequitable ...

The future of viticulture: how AI is revolutionising pruning

04-Jun-2024 - A quiet revolution is emerging in the middle of the Palatinate vineyards. It is a change driven by a new AI technology that will not only make the work of winegrowers easier, but will also enable young professionals to maintain - and improve - the quality of wines at a high level. The AI ...

Every week is harvest season in Western-designed hybrid farm

Net zero, zero-mile agriculture system extends berry growing season

22-May-2024 - Climate change and severe weather are the primary challenges facing year-round berry production in Canada. Western University professorJoshua Pearceand theFree Appropriate Sustainable Technology (FAST)research group have devised a food security solution to address these global threats by ...

Artificial intelligence for the agricultural and food industry

Closing event of the BMEL-funded AI projects and X-KIT at Fraunhofer IESE

30-Apr-2024 - On April 25 and 26, 2024, the official closing event of the AI projects funded by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) took place at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE in Kaiserslautern. The event was jointly organized by the BMEL, the Federal ...

AI predicts the taste and quality of beer

Revolutionizing the beverage industry and making better beer

28-Mar-2024 - Belgian scientists have developed AI models that can predict how a particular beer will be rated by consumers, and what aroma compounds brewers can add to improve it. The research was published today in the renowned scientific journalNature Communicationsand may revolutionize how the food and ...

AI-generated food images look tastier than real ones

How technology is changing our perception of food

13-Mar-2024 - With the Global Nutrition and Hydration Week 2024, researchers have announced an intriguing discovery – consumers generally prefer AI-generated images of food over real food images, especially when they are unaware of their true nature. The new findings have been published in Food Quality and ...

Storage boxes should smell spoiled food

Using artificial senses to combat food waste

12-Mar-2024 - Keep-fresh boxes that provide information on how long their contents will remain edible and handy measuring devices that predict how long fruit and vegetables will remain fresh in the supermarket of the future: These are the concrete plans of a project in which the research team of sensor systems ...

From snack to science: Innovative grant brings popcorn into the classroom

22-Jan-2024 - In a few years, popcorn could become a standard element in science classrooms across Illinois and the nation. With funding from a newUSDA grant, aUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaigncrop scientist and collaborating educators are developing a popcorn-based curriculum to reinforce concepts ...