Military-Grade Tech to Monitor Eggplants Rather Than Explosives
- Israel army knowhow used to build robot for hydroponic farming
- Founders hope tech will be used in outer space to grow food
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On a rooftop in the Jewish-Arab Tel Aviv neighborhood of Jaffa, a former military technologist and an ex-journalist sit in a transparent bio-dome where their robot is busy learning how to grow food.
Flux IoT’s Eddy, a robot measuring less than a foot tall and resembling a life buoy, is built with military-grade sensors and armed with image-processing technology.