FFRobotics
Formerly FFMH-Tech
Fully Robotic Orchard Management and Tree-Fruit Harvesting System
Startup Seed Agriculture & Food Technologies Est. 2014
Total Raised
$3.45M
Seed
Last Round
$2M
3 rounds
Investors
1
1 public
Team
2
1-10 employees
Confidence
98/100
News
6
articles
Patents
1
About
Fresh Fruit Robotics offers an orchard management system with an online platform that provides traceability, data insights, and partner recommendations by tree and fruit location to ensure orchard value and sustainability. This system is partnered with a production-ready, high-volume, autonomous tree fruit harvesting platform using machine learning and AI that selects fruit based on producer’s criteria, and delivers the harvested fruits to the bin with high quality. Future uses of this machine will include additional operations to support season-long management of the orchard and the related data to provide additional insights. The company has developed a robotic fresh fruit harvester that enables growers to reduce costs by supplementing or replacing human workers. The harvester minimizes fruit damage and increases efficiency and productivity by precisely and gently picking more usable fruit than an average human worker. FFRobotics' harvester combines precise and simple robotic controls; fast and accurate image processing; and advanced algorithms for identifying the location, color, and size of the fruit available for picking. In the future, the harvester will be able to distinguish usable produce from damaged, diseased, or unripe fruit; and also thin and prune, making it useful over multiple harvesting seasons. In addition, it can be easily modified to pick different types of fresh fruit (e.g. citrus, peaches, pears, mangos, and pomegranates).
Classification
Sector
Agriculture & Food TechnologiesAg TechFarm Equipment & TreatmentPrecision Ag
Core Technology
Machinery & RoboticsIndustrial RobotsArtificial IntelligenceImage RecognitionComputer Vision
Target Customer
Agriculture & FoodCrops
Business Model
B2CB2B
Tags
cropsroboticsvideo-image-processingprecision-agricultureagtechautomationcomputer-visionartificial-intelligencesmart-farmingmachineryimage-processingagriculture
Funding & Events
Oct 2022
Non-equity $2M
Horizon Europe
Nov 2017
Convertible Debt $700K
Local Agricultural community (Kibbutz)
Jan 2018
Non-equity $750K
Washington (USA) Tree Fruit Research Commission
News (6)
Jan 31, 2018 · venturebeat.com
growth-positive
Japan's Line turns to SoftBank and cryptocurrency to make its messaging app a one-stop shop
PartnersInvestment
growth-positive
Robots designed to pick delicate fruit may help deal with labour shortage - Design Engineering
CustomersPartners
Apr 28, 2017 · www.dailymail.co.uk
growth-negative
Biggest orchards could soon use ROBOT fruit pickers
CustomersPartners
Apr 10, 2017 · www.goodfruit.com
growth-positive
The latest on FF Robotics' machine harvester
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Mar 22, 2016 · www.freshplaza.com
Not mentioned
FreshPlaza: Global Fresh Produce and Banana News
Mar 18, 2016 · www.hortweek.com
growth-positive
Robotic fruit harvester showcased in Tel Aviv
Partners
Details
Product Stage
Beta
Employees
1-10
Exact Count
3
District
Center District
Founded
2014
Registrar
515071959
Crunchbase
ffrobotics
Locations
Sderot Yitshak Rabin 1, Kadima Zoran, Israel
Links
Website
LinkedIn
Admin
Last Update
Aug 31, 2024
Verified by
Jenny Sotnik-Talisman
Claimed
Yes
Missing
markets
Team (2)
Avi Kahani
Co-founder & CEO
Founder
Gad Kober
Co-founder & VP Business Development
Founder
Internal
Created by
Sharon Blatt (dodasher1436@gmail.com)
Created
2015-03-15T00:00:00.000Z
Last editor
Ortal Wein (ortalw@sncentral.org)