Roboscientific triumphs at Tesco Agri T-Jam

UK startup Roboscientific has won the 2019 Tesco Agri T-Jam, which was hosted last week in partnership with the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit.

Ten agri-food ventures presented their ideas for improving supply chain efficiency and sustainability: Acris Biotechnology (UK), Biosystems Engineering (UK), BlakBear (UK), CCm Technologies (UK), Faromatics (Spain), Metronome Technologies (UK), N2 Applied (Norway), Proteon Pharmaceuticals (Poland), and Smartbell (UK).

Tesco’s Agri-Food team led the judging panel with Emmanuelle Lerges (Food Technical & Agriculture Director), Mark Suddaby (Category Director: Meat, Fish, Poultry), Natalie Smith (Head of Agriculture) and Jo Hickson (Head of Tesco Labs) joined by supply chain partner Branston’s Vee Gururajan (Innovations Director).

Roboscientific manufactures Volatile Organic Compound (VOCs) analysers. “We have to commend the high standard of the pitches and the different technologies that made it to the final, across a wide range of sectors,” Lerges says.

“It made it very difficult to choose one winner, but in Roboscientific, we see a fantastic opportunity for long-term collaboration, from reducing antibiotics and waste to disease identification and food safety improvements. We look forward to working with the team at Roboscientific on trialling and developing technology through our supply chain.”