PacifiCan awards 4AG Robotics C$2.5 million scale-up funding
Pacific Economic Development Canada awarded 4AG Robotics C$2.5 million in repayable funding to scale production and sales of robotic mushroom-harvesting technology.
Evidence notes
- The C$2.5 million contribution came through PacifiCan's Business Scale-Up and Productivity program.
- The project supports higher manufacturing capacity and global sales of the harvesting system.
- 4AG's robots use artificial intelligence to pick, trim and package mushrooms while reducing production costs.
Company context
4AG Robotics develops autonomous mushroom-harvesting systems for commercial farms. Its robots use machine vision and suction-based handling to pick, trim and pack Agaricus mushrooms in climate-controlled growing rooms.