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Accelerating Sustainable Food Business Solutions to Reshape Our Cities

Impact Hub

The UN predicts that by 2050, this proportion will rise to more than two thirds. In 2018, Impact Hub King’s Cross kicked off an incubation program for UK-based social entrepreneurs aiming to combat the key challenges in our urban food systems. A translocal collaboration is born. Photo: Sutton Community Farm. Feeding the City.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

Dream It

Finishing is the ripest for disruption. Over the last few years, we’ve seen many entrepreneurs begin to tackle challenges in the construction world using robotics and AI, ranging from data-collection to completion of actual construction tasks like electrical wiring, drywall installation, concrete pouring, pad leveling and much more.

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Mistaking performance for competence

TechCrunch

Rodney Brooks (Rethink Robotics) at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017. It’s something he’s promised to update at the start of every year until 2050, “as I will then be 95 years old, and I suspect I’ll be a little too exhausted by then to carry on arguments about why I was right or wrong on particular points.” Fair enough.