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YC-backed Four Growers builds robots to help solve greenhouse labor shortages
The Pittsburgh-based company just raised a $9 million Series A round led by Basset Capital with participation from Y Combinator, Ospraie Ag Science, and other existing investors.
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Four Growers Uses AI to Harvest Tomatoes at Nature Fresh Farms
In 2022, Nature Fresh partnered with Four Growers, a FANUC Authorized System Integrator, to develop a robotic system equipped with AI to harvest tomatoes in the greenhouse environment. Today, the automated system allows Nature Fresh to expand more rapidly and potentially cover double the acreage with their current staff.
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IFPA Takes on Tech Podcast Live from the Global Produce & Floral Show
IFPA’s Vonnie Estes broadcasts live from the Global Produce and Floral Show interviewing Four Growers Co-Founder & CEO, Brandon Contino.
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Faster-than-Humans Harvesting Robot now also picks Cucumber
Four Growers has recently added cucumbers to its harvesting robot. This is just the latest addition to Four Growers’ harvesting robot, which is one of the first robots to be faster than humans at picking.
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Four Growers' Robotics and Computer Vision make Automated Greenhouse Harvests Reality
Revolutionizing Agriculture with AI-powered Robotic platform Solutions for Industrial Greenhouses.
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Agrobotics Special: Four Growers Tomato Picking Robots
For our featured interview this week, we sit down with Brandon Contino, CEO and co-founder of Four Growers, a startup building robots to harvest foods grown in greenhouses. Brandon talks about the technical and business challenges related to the robot and how focusing on greenhouses helps product evolution.