Darwin AI of Waterloo has been picked as one of the world’s top 10 projects for its work in using artificial intelligence to help Aspire Food Group with its cricket-farming venture.
Only two in North American made it into the top 10, the other being NASA of the United States.
Aspire Food Group is building a cricket-farming facility at London that is due to open this spring.
Sheldon Fernandez, chief executive officer for Darwin AI, told CBC Radio in Kitchener that the UN award is “quite significant because it really shows that Canada can compete at the global stage when it comes to artificial intelligence.
“We often hear, in Canada that we're really great at creating these technologies, but not so much commercializing them to practical ends.
“Having this type of recognition on the global scale . . . really shows the level of innovation that's coming from the country and that we really can compete with the very best in the world.”
Crickets are being grown as a protein food.
