A Semi-Autonomous Cricket Farm to Feed the World

When Gabe Mott, Shobhita Soor and Mohammed Ashour proposed building a commercial-scale cricket farm optimized with robots and data, the idea earned the McGill University students the $1 million Hult Prize, the largest student competition for social good, in 2013.But when it came to launching the concept, they needed to leave convention behind, including most of what had been written in science journals about rearing billions of crickets.Apparently, people hadn’t been thinking big eno