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25 million USD for Advanced Farm Technologies and its autonomous robotic fruit harvester
California-based Advanced Farm Technologies, the first US company to commercialise a robotic strawberry harvester, has closed a $25 million Series B financing round. The funds will be used to support the company’s growth in strawberry harvesting and to apply its technology to apple harvesting.The Advanced Farm TX robotic strawberry harvester is designed to work alongside manual harvesting crews and…
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Agrobot hydroponic growing system
Company: Agrobot, Huelva, SpainWebsite: http://www.agrobot.com/Product:Agrobot SW6010 and AGSHydro, a bed-mounted hydroponic growing system tailored for strawberry cultivation and harvesting Agrobot combine Agrobot hydroponic growing system Application: Mature berry harvest from raised hydroponic growing bedsTesting: will begin final testing of strawberry harvest in January; seasonal testing has been done for a few yearsAvailable: mid-2015Price: $250,000…
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Harvesting CROO robotics
Automation is also emerging to address workforce challenges. The industry is projected to see a 6% decline in the number of farm workers between 2014 and 2024. Act CROO Robotics has developed a robot to help strawberry farmers pick and pack crops. The shortage of workers has reportedly caused millions of dollars in lost revenue…
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Highlighting ROI for strawberries
One of the concepts in image processing is ROI. This is nothing more than the areas of the image that are of interest to us. ROI – Region Of Interest. It’s no different in agricultural image processing. We have our pictures: in our case, a picture of a strawberry field. And we’re wondering if there…
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Robot strawberry harvester
Company: Robotic Harvesting, Simi Valley, CaliforniaWebsite: http://www.roboticharvesting.comProduct: Strawberry harvester, data logger and mobile platform Robot Strawberry Harvester Area of use: CaliforniaTesting: underway in CaliforniaFunction: autonomous mobile device that takes stereovision photos to identify a fruit or vegetable in 3D space, then uses a robotic arm to select and place the selected berries on a conveyorAvailability:…
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