🍓 Strawberry Robotics, Inc.

Robots that harvest soft fruit at human speed.

Strawberries are a high-value crop and one of the hardest to pick. Nearly every berry is still picked by hand, at the moment it ripens, by crews that are getting harder to find each season. Farms face shrinking labor pools, high turnover and rising wages, and the berries can't wait.

Strawberry Robotics builds harvesting robots for specialty crops, starting with strawberries. We design the machine and the intelligence that drives it together, so that a robot can work a real field the way a skilled picker does: quickly, gently, and all season long.

What we believe

• Speed is the problem. Finding a ripe berry is not enough. A harvester has to pick it fast enough to pay for itself.
• Hardware and learning belong together. The best policy is limited by the arm it runs on, and the best arm is wasted without a policy that can use it.
• Simulation scales what the field cannot. We do much of our learning in simulation, so the robot has practised long before it reaches a farm.

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