{"id":161848,"date":"2024-09-23T10:29:25","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T08:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eurecat.org\/?p=161848"},"modified":"2024-10-25T12:24:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T10:24:49","slug":"catalan-firm-enkitek-robotises-fruit-harvesting-in-soilless-agriculture-with-technological-support-from-eurecat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eurecat.org\/en\/catalan-firm-enkitek-robotises-fruit-harvesting-in-soilless-agriculture-with-technological-support-from-eurecat\/","title":{"rendered":"Catalan firm Enkitek robotises fruit harvesting in soilless agriculture with technological support from Eurecat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1424.8px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>The Catalan company Enkitek with the technological support of Eurecat has designed a robot for monitoring fruit and vegetable crops in soilless agriculture, checking their quality and point of ripeness and harvesting them. The system adds to traditional labour operations by enhancing their productivity through the combination of various Industry 4.0 technologies such as 3D sensors and artificial intelligence in hydroponic farming, a method which does not use any soil.<\/p>\n<p>The company has been backed by the Catalan Government through ACCI\u00d3, the Agency for Business Competitiveness in the Ministry of Business and Labour, with a \u20ac10,000 grant from the ACCI\u00d3 Coupons for Advanced Digital Technologies which allow technologies to be tested by the Digital Innovation Hub of Catalonia (DIH4CAT). In this case, the technology provider for the project was Eurecat which leads DIH4CAT\u2019s advanced manufacturing and robotics node.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAutomation tapping robotics and artificial intelligence is a high added-value tool for the agricultural industry because it will make it possible to step up soilless farming and tackle problems such as the lack of fertile soil and potential droughts,\u201d says V\u00edctor Canton Ferrer, Enkitek\u2019s CEO. \u201cIt is a tool we hope will be used to enhance quality in the agricultural industry and society anchored in technological knowledge and research. The ACCI\u00d3 coupon has enabled us to move forward at this early stage of the project and cleared the way for us to apply for other grants to further develop our technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The robot Enkitek uses is equipped with a device which works together with a computer to run an artificial intelligence model to find the fruit, identify its state of ripeness and spot potential defects based on an RGB camera. If the produce is viable for harvesting, the robot uses a 3D stereoscopic camera to determine its location within the crop and calculate the optimum position for cutting the stalk and picking the fruit. Finally, it calculates the orders to be sent so that the robot can harvest and dispatch the fruit.<\/p>\n<p>The device is designed for soilless crops and suitable for all kinds of fruit and vegetables. The company has conducted a first pilot test with a small-scale strawberry crop and the device is scalable to larger crops at the customer\u2019s request.<\/p>\n<p>Companies using this robot can optimise crop productivity while adding to the traditional labour force to increase crop yields as it can work 24 hours a day. Enkitek is looking to market the device in two main sectors: education in agriculture, targeting vocational training for students to implement new technological solutions in the agricultural industry, and companies or individual customers who would like to use this technology to raise their productivity.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":160596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[430,2295,743],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autonomous-professional-robotics","category-food","category-press-notes-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Catalan firm Enkitek robotises fruit harvesting in soilless agriculture with technological support from Eurecat - 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