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Indoor strawberry grower Oishii bought the technology of Tortuga AgTech, a strawberry-picking robot maker.
A dated step forward on the record · Company-reported
What the source says
“has acquired Tortuga AgTech’s IP, assets and members of the Tortuga engineering team.”
What it means
Fruit-picking robots, from Dogtooth, Tevel, FFRobotics, Agrobot, Oishii (Tortuga), is at stage 4 of 5 on our ladder: paying customers. Its stage is set by other milestones on its record; this one adds to the history. This line rests on the company's own announcement; no regulator, customer or independent report confirms it in our sources yet.
Human help: The maker hasn't said whether people help it remotely.
More on Fruit-picking robots
- A review of research found fruit-picking robots still cope poorly with real orchards and fields.
- Dogtooth said growers use its robots on commercial farms, naming a recent deployment with Dyson Farming in the UK.
- UK strawberry-picking robot maker Dogtooth raised more than £14 million.
- Apple-picking robot maker advanced.farm closed for lack of funding and cancelled its 2025 season in Washington.
- Burlington Berries in Tasmania, Australia, used 16 Dogtooth robots to pick its strawberries.
- Abundant Robotics, a California apple-picking robot startup founded in 2016, shut down.