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AI grain assessment sows seeds
SOUTH Australian arti- ficial intelligence com- pany GoMicro is rolling out its new grain assess- ment technology in Aus- tralia, paving the way towards more consistent quality controls and stable grain and pulse prices.
scanner-based method which assesses about 200 well-separated grains at a time.
sessment risks for all par- ties in the supply chain,” Dr Krish said.
“We believe that the implementation of the technology developed by GoMicro will allow us to establish the quality of the soybeans at intake more quickly and accurately.”
the number of individual beans.
Based at Flinders Uni- versity’s nigh-tech New Venture Institute at Ton- sley Innovation District in Clovelly Park, Adelaide, GoMicro chief executive officer Dr Sivam Krish said the multi-grain as- sessor gives growers and domestic and export mar- kets a quick and better way to grade crops, ac- curately testing more than 1200 grains in one sample – compared to the existing
GoMicro’s grain assess- ment technology is also being trialled in wheat grown in India, corn in Ghana and negotiations are well advanced to ex- pand the assessor rollout with a large Indian ag-tech company to use on grain, corn and soy procurement.
“This direct digital man- ufacturing facility at Flin- ders University is working with Queensland grain, seed and pulse trader PB Agrifood to assess the quality of soybeans sold by local farmers,” Dr Krish said.
Each of these require different standards of soy- beans.
Dr Krish said the GoMicro technology has shown the potential for farmers to capitalise on low-cost high-quality grain assessments to “transform entire harvests into digital assets that can be traded online”.
“GoMicro relies on the excellent quality of phone cameras and Amazon web services to deliver low- cost high-precision quality grain and other produce assessments to farmers worldwide,” Dr Krish said.
The new system reduces the risk of wasted pro- duction and trade disputes which often involves more subjective human quality assessment.
PB Agrifood has sev- eral uses for soybeans including whole beans, flour, kibble and meal.
“We hope that the tech- nology will result in growers getting a fairer and faster categorisation of their soybeans.”
“Accurate verifiable assessment will greatly reduce quality-related as-
The GoMicro tech- nology assesses the soy- beans into five categories and creates a table of re- sults for each defect, in- cluding the percentage of defective beans in each category.
“We look forward to making our phone-based AI assessment technology affordable and available to the entire grain industry.”
GoMicro chief executive officer Dr Sivam Krish.
University of Technology Sydney researcher Iris Cheng with a choroid plexus tis- sue sample.
Currently, staff manually categorise soybeans based on the relevant standards, whereas the GoMicro tech- nology assesses the soybeans into five categories and creates a table of results for each defect.
Porcine brain tissue for clinical trial
In the first Australian trial, PB Agrifood field officer Kate McIntyre said the Toowoomba- based company hopes the GoMicro Assessor will be “very useful in day-to-day operations”, making dig- itisation solutions acces- sible to the company as well as growers to produce fair pricing based on ob- jective assessment.
Currently, PB Agrifood staff manually categorise these soybeans based on the relevant standards.
“We are looking at yet more design and AI fea- tures to achieve optimal imaging conditions rap- idly, even in the field,” Dr Krish said.
“When PB Agrifood heard about GoMicro and the use of AI technology to classify grain and pulses, we thought about how this technology could improve efficiency and accuracy in our intake of soybeans,” Ms McIntyre said.
“It will enable us to match these percentages to our intake standards and categorise the beans,” Ms McIntyre said.
GoMicro has developed a range of phone camera techniques and flexible web-based and artificial intelligence technologies to promote primary pro- duction and profitability via pest and food product surveillance and now the new grain, pulses, coffee and tea assessment method for farmers and consumers around the world.
“We are still imple- menting the technology into our intake process, with a few changes to be made, for example our current standards work off a weight sample whereas with the GoMicro app the sample will be based on
LIVING Cell Technol- ogies has advanced its Par- kinson’s disease research, with choroid plexus tissue successfully shipped from New Zealand to Australia as part of the third clinical trial of NTCELL.
facturing of NTCELL. Living Cell Technologies research agreement with UTS and the Australian Foundation for Diabetes Research enables the pro- duction of NTCELL in Australia, which would be a new milestone for this
preparation for the manu- facturing of NTCELL in Australia for the very first time.”
Goods Administration is required prior to the first clinical trial, with similar trials having previously been undertaken in New Zealand.
The choroid plexus – or porcine brain – tissue was provided by New Zealand biotech NZeno from its designated pathogen-free facility in Invercargill.
“This is another key step as we advance our poten- tially ground-breaking re- search into Parkinson’s dis- ease, with no current treat- ment available to prevent progression of the disease,” Prof Tuch said.
The first trial participants are expected to receive treatment in 2024.
Following receipt of an import permit from the Department of Ag- riculture, Fisheries and Forestry, the tissue was shipped to Australia and transported to research partner, the University of Technology Sydney, in preparation for the manu-
CELL has been optimised, it will be manufactured at a good manufacturing prac- tice facility for use in the company’s third clinical trial of NTCELL in Par- kinson’s disease.
Under an agreement with OptiCellAI, artificial intel- ligence technology will be used to optimise and select NTCELL for implantation into the brains of people with early to mid-stage Parkinson’s disease, as a potential treatment for the disease.
Globally, the Parkinson’s disease market is projected to reach $16.68 billion by 2029, up from $8.27 billion in 2022.
project.
Once production of NT-
More than 10 million people worldwide are living with Parkinson’s disease, including around 100,000 Australians, with the dis- ease costing the Australian community an estimated $10 billion per year.
Living Cell Technologies executive chair Professor Bernie Tuch said, “We are delighted to have received the shipment of choroid plexus tissue in Sydney in
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