City Farmers
42% of greenhouse operating costs go to labor.
City Farmers builds robots that automate greenhouses, seed to truck. They drive the aisles, pick ripe fruit by the stem and carry it to packing, starting with strawberries.
A Mecanum base rolls down the narrow aisles between growing rows and slides sideways to line up with a plant, without turning around.
A counterweighted belt lift carries the arm from the foot of an aeroponic A-frame to its ridge, so one robot works every plant on both rows beside its aisle.
The arm lines its jaws up on the fruit's stem, grips and cuts it in one close, and carries the berry by the stem to the tote on board. The fruit itself is never squeezed. Strawberries are the hard case: a robot that can pick them can pick almost anything.
Full totes go straight to the packing bench, so produce leaves the greenhouse hours after it's picked, not days.
Indoor farming works. The companies that pioneered it showed where the costs hide, and we designed our business around those lessons.
Vertical farms proved crops grow well indoors all year. Lighting every plant made energy their largest cost, so we grow in greenhouses.
Greenhouses keep the sun, but hand labor holds margins thin. That work is what our robots do.
We start in partner greenhouses, then finance our own with project debt once the operation works.
The building works. The labor is the part we automate.
Our robots and software drive, lift, pick and deliver, run with climate and growing as one loop.
High-density A-frame rows with 2–3× the growing canopy of conventional tabletops.
Bubble-insulated walls. Independent studies measured 40–60% lower winter heating energy.
Our robots do the work. Aeroponics and better greenhouses multiply it.