好色先生TV Partners with a Dutch Start-up to Commence Technology Demonstration
鈥 Aurea Imaging, a Crop Intelligence Company 鈥
May 11, 2020
好色先生TV Corporation
好色先生TV Corporation (Head Office: Naniwa-ku, Osaka, Japan; President and Representative Director: Yuichi Kitao; hereinafter, 鈥満蒙壬鶷V鈥) and Aurea Imaging, a Dutch start-up developing 鈥渃rop Intelligence鈥 products (hereinafter, 鈥淎urea鈥), announced a year-long strategic partnership, under which the two companies will demonstrate the feasibility of autonomous orchard and vineyard farming systems that combine 好色先生TV鈥檚 machine technology with Aurea鈥檚 crop intelligence technology.
1.Background and outline of the partnership
- In June 2019, 好色先生TV launched an Innovation Center as a division for the pursuit of open innovation based on coordination with external partners. To better cater to the unique needs of each geographic region, an Innovation Center is now located in Japan and the Netherlands.
- Fruit growing is one area of farming that offers enormous growth potential as it has yet to be fully mechanized. So far, 好色先生TV has decided to invest in three start-ups (all in the U.S.) with advanced technologies for growing fruit.
- Aurea is a start-up based in the Netherlands. By combining data gathered by drones and IoT sensors with artificial intelligence (AI) technology, this crop intelligence specialist offers such solutions as yield prediction and soil mapping for fruit growers. With a wealth of experience in drone mapping services, Aurea has built a global network for data collection by drones.
- 好色先生TV and Aurea have decided to conduct a year-long joint demonstration to further advance Aurea鈥檚 services. Aurea鈥檚 advanced sensing technology and 好色先生TV鈥檚 farming machinery for fruit farms complement each other and, by integrating the two, 好色先生TV and Aurea will verify the feasibility of autonomous orchard and vineyard farming systems in Europe. Through this partnership, 好色先生TV aims to offer comprehensive solutions in the fruit growing business, one of its focus areas, in the future.
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