Founded in October 2017, Arugga is developing autonomous ground robots to treat and monitor individual plants in greenhouses.
The company launched its first commercial product, robotic pollination, in tomato greenhouses in Australia and the US.
The company is developing additional solutions and modules to be added on the same robotic platform to help growers reduce labour costs and shortages and ultimately increase yields.
Arugga is developing and manufacturing autonomous ground robots to treat and monitor individual plants in greenhouses.
We address acute problems in agriculture worldwide with labour shortages, lack of data and overuse of pesticides for plants treatment.
The company is first focused on serving the large tomato greenhouse market worth $100b.
We have launched commercially our first module- robotic pollination in the US and Australia.
The company is working on additional modules on top of the same robotic platform: plant lowering, pruning, pest & disease detection and yield prediction
We provide our solutions on the basis of a monthly leasing fee.
Our first solution, robotic pollination is now being deployed commercially with large growers in the US and Australia. Our robotic pollination solution addresses challenges with existing industrially-grown bumblebees:
- Sensitivity to environmental conditions
- Spread of viruses
- Requires subsequent pruning
- Commercial hives are not available in Australia and other countries, requiring costly manual pollination
- High environmental costs in shipping
Across several trials in Israel, Australia and the US, Arugga's robotic pollination has shown yields as good as and up to 20% higher than manual pollination and as good as and up to 5% higher than the bees.
At a time when fruit and vegetable growers around the world face enormous challenges in finding and retaining workers, we hope our robotic solutions will contribute to easing these challenges and making producers more competitive.
Arugga is proud to bring to the market a solution which will eventually reduce the use of chemicals and the spread of diseases in fruit and vegetable farming, and thus contribute to a healthier and safer planet.