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AUTOMATO aims to revolutionize tomato harvesting by developing an autonomous robot capable of detecting and picking tomatoes in greenhouses. This innovation addresses labor shortages and aims to reduce costs while increasing efficiency in agricultural production.
The tomato is the second most harvested vegetable worldwide with 177M tons of tomatoes harvested each year globally, 68% of which are handpicked and consumed fresh.
All current harvest in greenhouses is based on manual labour with harvest accounting for 30-50% of labour time.
Manual production currently faces the challenge of feeding a growing human population, an international labour crisis which poses a serious threat to production in farms as seen across Europe, with Spain hiring 7,000 Morocc…
AUTOMATO AGRICULTURAL ROBOTICS LTD
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