Orchard Robotics, founded by a Thiel fellow Cornell dropout, raises $22M for farm vision AI  | TechCrunch

Inspired by his grandparents, who were apple farmers in China, Charlie Wu got the idea to apply technology to agriculture while studying computer science at Cornell University, a top agriculture school. “I got to meet fruit professors who are the best in the world at what they do,” Wu told TechCrunch.

“Through talking to them, I realized even the largest farms in the nation basically have no idea.