An MIT student invented a robot that can grow fruits and vegetables on Mars

Heather Hava, an aerospace engineering student at the University of Colorado Boulder, invented two robots that can grow fruits and vegetables and monitor human health in space.
She won the $15,000 "Eat it!" Lemelson-MIT undergraduate prize, an award for the nation's top two collegiate inventors in food technology, for her bots.
The first, called SPOT, can grow strawberries, tomatoes, peppers, herbs, and leafy veggies, like kale and basil, inside a small chamber. It's a hydroponic garden, which means the produce grows on a soil-less bed of water with nutrients.

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