Indoor farming company AppHarvest this week announced that it has acquired Root AI. The deal is valued at around $60 million, with $10 million in cash and the reminder coming from AppHarvest stock.

In the very near future, robots are going to be picking the vegetables that appear on grocery store shelves across America. The automation revolution that’s arrived on the factory floor will make its ...

Most farmers can tell at a glance if their crop is ready to harvest. Josh Lessing has a robot that can do that, too. Lessing is cofounder of startup in Somerville called Root AI, which is developing ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Root AI's main product is a robot named Virgo, which is ...

Kentucky-based agtech and vertical farming company AppHarvest has acquired artificial intelligence firm Root AI and its robotic universal harvester Virgo to maximize its sustainable harvesting methods ...

The Boston-based startup has already been getting a fair bit of press (including on these very pages) with the promise of produce-picking robotics. This week it announced a seed round of $7.2 million, ...