French Start-Up Grows Lettuce with Vapor and Robots
Smart lettuce? What the heck is that? Just ask start-up company CombaGroup, whose greenhouse-grown smart lettuce is paving the way toward “the new green revolution for salads,” according to French news publication 24heures.
CombaGroup uses a proprietary aeroponics irrigation robot to emit a mist of nutrients needed to grow the lettuce and chicory plants (nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus) directly onto the roots in open air. This process ultimately saves 90% of the water needed for outdoor cultivation. The lettuce grows close together on trolleys and is moved gradually as it grows. Once harvested, the lettuce is cut and placed in pouches.
You gotta check out their operation…
Marie Raismes, Co-Founder, says, “Our goal is to create technology to produce a pure local salad, without pesticides, soil, or insects.”
What do you think? Is this really “smart lettuce”? Growing lettuce in a greenhouse and pairing it up with robots and vapor seems like something you’d see in a science fiction movie. I’m curious to see how far this new company will go with this proprietary technology.
