Harvesting innovation: The story behind Tortuga’s autonomous harvesting robots

Eric Adamson, CEO and co-founder of Tortuga, joins us on this episode to debate agricultural robotics. Tortuga is among the agtech firms main the cost to remodel greenhouse farming with their autonomous harvesting robots. Eric discusses the difficulties and successes of growing robots to be used in greenhouses, shedding mild on the processes concerned in harvesting strawberries, grapes, and tomatoes. This episode presents an intriguing look into how know-how and agriculture are influencing the way forward for meals manufacturing, from overcoming design limits to investigating inventive alternate options.

Episode Timeline

26:15   Interview with Eric Adamson, from Tortuga AgTech

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