Turning Food Operations Autonomous with AI, Robotics and CircusOS

Artificial intelligence and robotics are increasingly moving beyond conventional automation, enabling new models of autonomous operations across industries where consistency, scalability and labour availability are critical. In food service, the convergence of AI, robotics, software and intelligent ...

Circus Launches Pods to Connect AI, Robotics and Ingredient Supply Chains

Circus SE announces the commercial launch of Circus Pods, a standardized ingredient and supply chain infrastructure developed specifically for the company's autonomous sustainment robotic systems, for both defence and commercial use. The proprietary ingredient system and AI-driven supply chain are ...

Google DeepMind AI Models Expand Agricultural Intelligence across 11 Countries

Google DeepMind’s Agricultural Landscape Understanding (ALU) and Agricultural Monitoring & Event Detection (AMED) models are being used across 11 countries in Asia Pacific and Africa to strengthen agricultural sustainability, farmer access to credit, water management and policy decision-ma...

Constems AI Applies Vision AI to Agriculture, Retail and Industrial Operations

As enterprises increasingly seek to connect digital intelligence with the physical world, Vision AI is emerging as a critical technology for enabling real-time visibility, operational intelligence and automation. From manufacturing and retail to agriculture, logistics, insurance and healthcare, the ...

Constems AI Enters India’s Tobacco Auctions with AI-Powered FCV Grading Initiative

The Tobacco Board of India, Guntur, has partnered with Constems AI Pvt. Ltd., a deep-tech Vision AI company, to introduce AI-powered grading of Flue-Cured Virginia (FCV) tobacco bales across a few auction platforms in Andhra Pradesh. The collaboration will use computer vision and deep...

Agerpoint Awarded Meta AI Glasses Impact Grant to Advance Hands-Free Intelligence for Agricultural Fieldwork

Agerpoint, a leader in spatial intelligence and AI for agriculture and natural asset management, has been named a recipient of an AI Glasses Impact Grant from Meta. The grant recognizes innovations that drive positive societal and economic value through wearable technologies. Agerpoint is one o...

VNR VJIET Researchers Secure Patent for AI-Powered Leaf Disease Detection System to Advance Precision Agriculture

Reinforcing the transformative role of Artificial Intelligence in agriculture, researchers from VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering & Technology (VNR VJIET), Hyderabad, have been granted an Indian patent for their AI-powered innovation, "Leaf Disease Detection System Using Convolutional ...

Loman AI Joins the Toast Partner Ecosystem to Answer Every Restaurant Phone Call, 24/7

Loman AI announced it has joined the Toast Partner Ecosystem as a Toast integration partner. Through this integration, restaurants running Toast can use Loman to answer inbound phone calls, take orders, book reservations, and answer caller questions around the clock, with phone orders...

The AI Operating System for Bharat’s Rural Economy

India’s vast and complex agricultural supply chain is increasingly being reshaped by artificial intelligence, as businesses look to turn fragmented data, market volatility and operational inefficiencies into faster and more informed decisions. From commodity price forecasting and crop intellig...

How AI and Computer Vision Could Transform Crop Disease Detection for Small Farmers

For small and marginal farmers, a crop disease outbreak can quickly turn into a devastating financial loss. Limited access to agricultural experts, delayed diagnosis and the difficulty of identifying diseases at an early stage can leave farmers with few options to protect their crops. Artificial int...

nurture.retail Drives Agri-Retail Digitisation with AI-Powered Marketplace

nurture.retail, an integrated agri-input retail and distribution platform, is accelerating the digitisation of India’s agri-retail ecosystem through AI-led innovation, deeper retailer engagement, and an expanding digital marketplace. The platform recorded a 35 per cent growth in...

BRAHMA AI and Hakuhodo Technologies Partner to Scale AI-Powered Digital Humans Across Japan and APAC

BRAHMA AI and Hakuhodo Technologies have announced a strategic partnership to develop, commercialise, and deploy high-fidelity AI-powered digital humans across Japan and the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, marking a significant step toward enterprise adoption of lifelike virtual humans. The collaborati...

UPES and IIT Guwahati Partner to Integrate AI Across the Clean Energy and Agritech Innovation Ecosystem in India

UPES, a multidisciplinary university and one of India’s leading institutions for future-focused education, announced a strategic collaboration with IIT Guwahati’s Technology Innovation & Development Foundation (IITG TIDF) and its incubation arm, IIT Guwahati BioNEST, to lau...

ANNAM.AI, Syngenta and Google Unveil National AI Hackathon for Agriculture

ANNAM.AI, India’s first Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture, hosted at IIT Ropar under the Ministry of Education, Government of India has launched HACK CORE 2026, a National AI hackathon in collaboration with Syngenta and Google, invit...

Why AI Will Be Agriculture's Most Valuable Farmhand

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming agriculture from a reactive, data-driven industry into a predictive and increasingly autonomous ecosystem. As climate volatility, labour shortages, and resource constraints intensify, growers are looking beyond traditional farm management tools toward ...

Hyphen and Motoniq Partner to Advance AI in Food Automation

Hyphen, a leader in intelligent food automation for commercial food service, and Motoniq, a physical AI company building the intelligence layer for the physical economy, announced a strategic partnership to bring physical AI to intelligent food automation. Hyphen’s Makeline automates the asse...

Nestlé Leverages AI to Strengthen Food Retail Networks in Africa

Nestlé is piloting Maggi Mami, an AI-powered business advisor created for the thousands of women who sell food ingredients in open markets across Central and West Africa (CWAR). Known as 'mammies,' these women often have little or no formal training and learn through experience.&nbs...

Niqo Robotics Takes India-Built Physical AI Farming Platform to Europe at Bharat Innovates 2026

Niqo Robotics, a Physical AI company building intelligent agricultural robots for global farms, has been selected to represent India at Bharat Innovates 2026, the Government of India’s flagship innovation conclave. Taking place in Nice from 14 to 16 June, the conclave brings together 120 deep-...

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