Wageningen University

Chaincraft

Chaincraft produces biochemicals from next generation feedstocks, such as food and agricultural waste.

Corvus Drones

Corvus Drones is a Dutch agritech company, founded in 2017 by Gerhold ten Voorde and Frans-Peter Dechering. The company has produced a drone for crop monitoring in greenhouses and claims to be one of the first to have developed an autonomous drone for indoor farming. IDTechEx spoke with Corvus Drones at the GreenTech 2022 event.

Artificial Intelligence can Grow a Lettuce Crop Autonomously

The five international teams participating in the final rounds of the 3rd Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge have completed the first try-out experiment. The teams tested their algorithms and gained experience during a first crop cycle with lettuce.

Wärtsilä Enters Dutch Market with Largest Energy Storage System

Wärtsilä will supply a 25-megawatt (MW) / 48-megawatt hour energy storage system to GIGA Storage BV in the Netherlands to help stabilise the electric grid. This will be Wärtsilä's first energy storage project in the Netherlands and it will be the country's largest system to date.

Thatchtec

Thatchtec is a Dutch agri-tech company that has developed a method of removing pathogens from the soil without the use of synthetic chemicals or steam treatment. This technique, which the company calls Soil Resetting can also improve the biodiversity of the soil, creating a healthier environment for crops to grow. In July 2020, IDTechEx Analyst Dr Michael Dent spoke with Thatchtec CEO Ard Reijtenbagh.

Ceradis

Ceradis is an agri-tech company that develops and produces environmentally friendly pesticides derived from nature, with the aim of creating safer and greener agriculture that can help feed the planet without costing the Earth. In June 2020, IDTechEx Analyst Dr Michael Dent spoke with Willem-Jan Meulemeesters, CEO of Ceradis.

Cutting-Edge Robot 'Trimbot' Makes Short Work of Gardening

A gardening robot has been developed that can self-navigate and automatically prune roses and trim bushes.

Agricultural robots: bringing data to least digitised major industry

Agriculture is one of the world's least digitized major industries. This is however all about to change. Indeed, data acquisition and analytics companies are already a hot topic, and as such are subject to growing capital investments. This trend is captured in the figure below.

Amsterdam to get world's first fleet of autonomous boats

The world's first major research program on autonomous floating vessels in metropolitan areas.

So long lithium, hello bacteria batteries?

A rechargeable battery driven by bacteria

Test phase of WEpod self-driving vehicles launched

The self-driving vehicle, WEpod, is being tested on the campus of Wageningen University in the Netherlands.

Harvesting electricity from wetlands

The technology enables the production of electricity from living plants at practically every site where plants can grow.