About The Guest

 Kyle Cobb the Co-Founder and CFO of Advanced.Farm. Advanced.farm is a venture-backed startup based in Davis, California, building 21st century farm equipment centered around automation, with its first product being a robotic strawberry harvester.  At Advanced.Farm, Kyle is reunited with a Founding team that had prior success in robotics with a company called Greenbotics. Greenbotics pioneered robotic solar panel cleaning for utility-scale solar farms, and was ultimately acquired by SunPower in 2013.  Before Greenbotics, Kyle worked in mergers and acquisitions at Bank of America and Pearson (a London-based education company). Kyle has a B.A. in Business Economics from UCLA and an M.B.A. from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.  He lives in Davis with his wife and two kids.  

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About The Episode

As the podcast tries to explore the impact of automation in as many relevant industries as possible, I’ve had the good fortune to have a few episodes on how agriculture is being disrupted. Previous episodes have looked at how automation has impacted the threat of invasive weeds, the potential benefits of IoT in crop monitoring, and the emerging vertical farm industry. But in today’s episode we’ll go a bit deeper into agriculture by looking at one of the essential actions, harvesting, and how it is being automated and what kind of repercussions it might have for both farmers and workers now and in the future. To discuss this and what the future of specialty crop harvesting might look like is my guest Kyle Cobb the Co-Founder and CFO of Advanced.Farm.