How robots will catalyze a food system transformation
Before diving in, we’re sharing some exciting recent footage of our “F” model robots picking at peak speeds of ~800 picks per hour.
Our customer is one of the world’s largest commercial strawberry farms, and our robots pick right alongside the human pickers, requiring no changes to how the farm operates.
In our last two posts, we examined the success of the global agricultural system, as well as the brittleness and unsustainability baked into its design. We detailed major efforts to increase the system’s resilience through methods like controlled environment agriculture. And, we discussed how resilience results in reduced environmental impact and increased sustainability.
Now, we’ll explain how robots will catalyze the success and resilience of farms, and controlled-environment farms in particular.
Rather than just telling you how, we’re going to show you — by tracing a pound of strawberries back through the supply chain, from your fridge all the way to the farm. Then, we’ll turn that process on its head — revealing how robots change every step of the process, and in doing so, transform the entire system.
