Roughly 70% of hazelnuts are grown on Turkey’s Black Sea coast, where hail storms and late frosts have devastated crops. Ferrero ( Ferrero ) Media Lab's Open Agriculture Initiative , or OpenAg, is using artificial intelligence (AI) for indoor farming. Italian confectioner and Nutella maker Ferrero is working with OpenAg to create a "hazelnut computer", an indoor farm where 16 trees are maturing in an environment where all variables such as light, temperature and humidity are controlled by AI. Once OpenAg deduces the ideal conditions for growing hazelnuts, MIT will use the data to search for new places to farm around the world. Media Lab's , director of OpenAg, described the process as "climate prospecting".
Ferrero ( Ferrero ) Media Lab's Open Agriculture Initiative , or OpenAg, is using artificial intelligence (AI) for indoor farming. Italian confectioner and Nutella maker Ferrero is working with OpenAg to create a "hazelnut computer", an indoor farm where 16 trees are maturing in an environment where all variables such as light, temperature and humidity are controlled by AI. Once OpenAg deduces the ideal conditions for growing hazelnuts, MIT will use the data to search for new places to farm around the world. Media Lab's , director of OpenAg, described the process as "climate prospecting".