Floating Robotics

Floating Robotics develops greenhouse robots for harvesting, de-leafing, crop lowering and plant analytics. Its compact mobile system uses 3D vision, edge computing and AI to work inside existing greenhouse infrastructure, with supervised daytime harvesting and autonomous night-time de-leafing. The Swiss company traces its development programme to ETH Zurich work begun in 2020 and has run paid grower pilots.

Facts

Segment: Agricultural Robotics
Country: Switzerland
Founded: 2020
Website: https://www.floatingrobotics.com/

Market context

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Timeline

2024-08-05 - Deployment - Floating Robotics completes first paid Meier Gemüse pilot - The 2024 engagement was Floating Robotics' first paid pilot. The pilot returned the system to Meier Gemüse after the earlier prototype trial. The commercial engagement advanced harvesting and de-leafing automation toward a robot-as-a-service model. - source: floatingrobotics.com
2024-05-24 - Award - Floating Robotics joins 2024 MassChallenge Switzerland cohort - The cohort was announced on 24 May 2024. Floating Robotics was one of roughly 100 startups selected from the top 8% of applicants. The four-month programme provided mentoring, industry contacts, investor access and zero-equity support. - source: masschallenge.org
2024-03-01 - Partnership - Floating Robotics joins Google for Startups Cloud Program - Admission to the programme took place in March 2024. The scale-tier programme provided cloud support for an AI and robotics startup. The milestone added platform resources as Floating Robotics prepared to expand commercial greenhouse pilots. - source: floatingrobotics.com

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Team

Salman Faraji - Chief Executive Officer

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Relations

Helbling AG - Engineering Service Partner - Gebert Ruef Stiftung reports an established service-provider partnership with Helbling AG.
maxon - Engineering Programme Partner - maxon supported development of Floating Robotics' tomato-boxing system through its Young Engineers Program.
ETH Zurich - Research Institution - Floating Robotics developed and tested its greenhouse robot through ETH Zurich's Robotic Systems Lab.

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