After trying and, sadly, failing to get our warehouse robot concept adopted by the industry, Harvest Automation retreated to serving our existing agricultural customers. Thirty or so nursery and greenhouse businesses across the US, plus a couple in foreign countries, needed spare… Read More »Harvest Automation Grape Cart
[Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4] Around 2012, six years after Harvest’s founders left iRobot in search of the next big thing, we reached a perplexing impasse. We’d discovered an application that aligned wonderfully with robots’ abilities, we had built a robot… Read More »Harvest Automation, Part 3
[Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4] Harvest’s situation was different from Roomba’s. We on the Roomba team thought the fact that we all had floors and understood how to clean them gave us a huge advantage. It meant that without conducting customer… Read More »Harvest Automation, Part 2
[Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4] After leaving iRobot in November 2006, three colleagues and I founded Harvest Automation, Inc. Over several years we researched a new application, secured funding, and built a robotic product that worked as we intended. Founding In… Read More »Harvest Automation, Part 1