Forager HX-400
4AG Robotics has developed a fully autonomous, vision-guided mushroom harvesting robot. The robot attaches to the farm’s existing shelving so there’s no need for changes to farm infrastructure. They are transportable and can move easily between growing rooms when needed.
On the Farm
4AG Robotics has completed deployments on 3 farms and are currently live on them.
The robots thinned, trimmed, packed and brought mushrooms to the front of each room.
With the vast amount of data being collected, the robots will use AI to make smarter decisions over time. Decisions about which mushrooms to thin, which mushrooms to harvest, and when to harvest. This will vastly improve yield as compared to human pickers.
The FIRA Robotics Village is a robotics and automation-focused area embedded within Penn State’s Ag Progress Days.