CEO of Canadian-based company 4AG Robotics (formerly known as TechBrew) Sean O’Connor stated that his company is ready to industrial production of harvesting robots.

We hit an incredible moment in February where we finally had robots that could reliably work for 24 hours a day, and handle an entire flush without human labor support. – said Sean O’Connor in his LinkedIn post on Monday, 03 April

“Nothing separates company from scaling the business”, said Sean in comment to UMDIS.

“We’ll be live in 3 different countries by September, and are scaling our manufacturing. Trimming needs to be improved, and we haven’t started placing mushrooms into a punnet/till on a real farm yet (only in our own facility), but we’re ready to start scaling the business.“

Farms can show their interest by emailing hello@4ag.ai to setup a call with 4AG Robotics to demo their robots. Additionally, company have trips scheduled for Europe, the US, Eastern Canada and Australia over the next couple of months and would be happy to add on stops to see their farms.

“We’re happy to chat pricing with farms, and have a few different pricing models (upfront purchase, cost per lbs, leasing model) that we’re open to considering. The beauty of our robots is that they’re built for a standard Dutch Rack farm, so there’s no investment needed by the farm to get our robots operating (other than the cost of the robots). We’ve built a pricing model that targets a 2 – 2.5 year payback period for the farm.

Now that there’s robots operating on farms, I believe we are less than a decade away from there being more robots than humans picking mushrooms in North America, Europe, and Australia.” – said Sean.