Do we need to pop the bubble? Machine learning is particularly interesting where large amounts of data need to be evaluated. Data is accumulating pretty much everywhere: While jogging via a fitness app, from surveillance cameras that focus on us on each of our movement, and from the mobile phone that we carry which us…

Artificial intelligence and self-driving cars Driving a vehicle is not an easy task. It is more than just going forward, left or right, the estimation of speed. Also, the behavior of other drivers must be foreseen. Road conditions must be considered. All this in real time. For a human It takes time to learn all…

Are robots taking over? The interoperation between machines and humans is getting increasingly important in our food systems. From big food industries to small handicrafts manufactories, we find the use of machines to improve communication and organization throughout the entire product lifecycle, as well as across the corporate divisions distant from the product. Due to…

Artificial Intelligence – friend or foe? Do you remember the TikTok video that went viral just a year ago about learning the shapes where differently shaped wooden blocks went into the square hole instead of the foreseen hole which is shaped according to the individual wooden block? Most of us were probably amused but also…

Let´s team up with technology for a greener future! We face a great dilemma related to food, we need to satisfy the physiological and psychological needs of the humans related to food and nutrition, but at the same time, we are generating threats to the environment. Food is a central part of our lives, not…

Will the future farm be your neighbour? Humans started farming already about 12 000 years ago. Since then, farming has evolved massively and is now the most efficient it has ever been. And still, we fall short. In 2020 around 760 million people were facing hunger and nearly one in three people did not have…

The digital era, predictive tools and other things It is not a secret (for anyone), that technology has become an important part of our daily life. You, my dear reader, are probably reading this part of my thoughts on your cellphone and I bet that is not the only thing you are doing “at the…

Food Origin Traceability – What are the main challenges? Nowadays, it is quite easy to pick up one product from your nearest supermarket, scan the embedded QR (Quick Response) code with your smartphone, and have all the information about that product appears on your phone’s browser. You’re able to learn about where the ingredients come…

TWINT my wallet? Once again, you can’t find your wallet and still want to go shopping – no problem, you can pay with you cell phone. You are standing in front of the parking meter and have no change – no problem you can pay with your cell phone. Given these promises, I downloaded the…

Could a CacaoCoin be the Bitcoin for farmers? Did you know that cacao beans have already been a currency 600 years ago? The ancient Aztecs used cacao beans as one of their currencies. This was a widespread form of money at that time. For example, a rabbit was worth 30 cacao beans. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztecs) And a…