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B.C. robotics firm secures $17.5M to revolutionize mushroom industry

Salmon Arm’s TechBrew Robotics rebranding to 4AG Robotics, developing robo-mushroom picker

A Salmon Arm robotics company is rebranding as it makes plans to revolutionize the mushroom industry.

Founded in 1999, in recent years TechBrew Robotics has seen some success in garnering investment towards developing an autonomous, vision-guided mushroom harvesting robot. To date, the company has completed proof of concept deployments on two farms, achieving the goal of a 95 per cent pick rate in both instances.

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Lachlan Labere

About the Author: Lachlan Labere

Editor of the Salmon Arm Observer, Shuswap Market, and Eagle Valley News. I'm always looking for new and exciting ways to keep our readers informed and engaged.
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