Upside Robotics is reducing fertilizer use and waste in corn crops | TechCrunch
techcrunch.com · 957 words · saved by 1 readers
Upside Robotics builds autonomous solar-powered robots that can help farmers reduce their fertilizer use by 70%.
Upside Robotics is reducing fertilizer use and waste in corn crops | TechCrunch Image Credits: Upside Robotics Robotics Upside Robotics is reducing fertilizer use and waste in corn crops Rebecca Szkutak 8:00 AM PST · February 11, 2026 The founders of Upside Robotics met in 2023 because they were both looking to build an impact-driven company that touched climate and agriculture. Less than a year later, they were sleeping in a camper on the side of a Canadian corn field building their robotics startup. Waterloo, Ontario-based Upside Robotics builds lightweight solar-powered autonomous robots th
related reading
- Socially Impactful Innovations - BOI (Board of Innovation)boardofinnovation.com
- Windfall Biowindfall.bio
- The Sugar Babies of Stanford Universitypiratewires.com
- How China's Unitree Will Dominate Global Roboticsnewsletter.semianalysis.com
- UPSIDE Foods | Make Meat Rightupsidefoods.com
- The Bot Companybot.co
- Mineral - A Google X Moonshotx.company
- The Future of Foodnewsletter.osv.llc
- Vertical farming company raised $500M, and then it all but disappearednews.ycombinator.com
- Formic: Automating Abundancenotboring.co
- The Global Food Crisis: Addressing Disease with Computer Vision | by Alexander Yevchenko | Mediummedium.com
- Organic Farmers: Resilient in the Face of Warambrook.com