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Physical AI is opening new robot applications and bringing robotics into environments that were previously difficult to automate. Eternal.ag demonstrates that potential in greenhouse harvesting, combining AI, vision systems and robotics to help growers address labor shortages and advance toward more autonomous food production.
Eternal.ag is a physical AI startup pioneering autonomous greenhouse harvesting. Using advanced AI, vision systems, and robotics, eternal.ag helps growers overcome labor shortages through intelligent harvesting automation while advancing its vision of the fully autonomous greenhouse and the future of sustainable food production.
Combining artificial intelligence, computer vision, and collaborative robots from Universal Robots (UR), eternal.ag enables autonomous harvesting within real-world greenhouse environments. The company’s flagship solution, the Harvester, helps maintain crop quality and plant health by using AI to make intelligent harvesting decisions and UR robots to perform precise harvesting tasks.
Greenhouse agriculture plays a critical role in feeding our growing population. Unlike traditional farming, greenhouse production enables fresh produce to be grown year-round, regardless of climate, geography, or season.
However, this industry faces challenges that threaten the long-term viability of greenhouse farming as a whole.
Global agriculture is entering a period of unprecedented transformation. As the demand for fresh produce continues to rise, greenhouse operators face mounting setbacks from labor shortages, rising operational costs, and the need to produce food more sustainably and predictably. Across Europe and beyond, labor has increasingly become a limiting factor in greenhouse production, threatening both profitability and long-term food security.
At the same time, greenhouse cultivation is becoming more important than ever. In a world challenged by climate change, geopolitical uncertainty, and decreasing availability of arable land, controlled-environment agriculture is a resilient and scalable way to grow fresh food year-round.
Autonomous Tomato Harvesting Powered by Physical AI
Eternal.ag was founded with the clear mission: to help greenhouse growers overcome these challenges through the power of robotics and physical AI.
While the journey began with autonomous harvesting, the vision extends far beyond a single task. Eternal.ag believes the greenhouse will become one of the world’s most important proving grounds for intelligent robotics, where AI-powered systems learn, adapt, and perform complex physical work reliably, at scale.
Eternal.ag founders assert that human expertise remains at the heart of food production and growers will continue to make critical decisions, guide operations, and apply generations of agricultural knowledge. However, repetitive and physically demanding tasks will increasingly be performed by intelligent autonomous systems using computer vision and robotics, enabling growers to focus on producing higher-quality crops more efficiently and sustainably.
Sherry Kunjachan, Co-founder & CTO eternal.agWe use a simulation first-environment for our development. This allows us to train, test and validate the bots in a virtual environment - and cut the development time from months to weeks.
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