The German agritech startup eternal.ag has deployed its fully-autonomous greenhouse harvesting robotic, Harvester, to the Dutch grower, Van Noord Growers, as a part of a long-term settlement.
Van Noord Growers, positioned in Zeeland within the Netherlands, produces each tomatoes and cucumbers throughout a complete 8.5-hectare website. It has been working the Harvester robotic, specialised in truss tomatoes, since September 2025 and is now set to develop its fleet to a complete of three this summer time following a profitable preliminary interval.
With everlasting.ag’s plug and play method, the Harvester has been built-in into Van Noord’s operations from day one. The fully-autonomous Harvester is designed to function for as much as 22 hours per day, 7 days every week, and harvests trusses utilizing an AI layer to make sure ripeness, consistency and clear chopping.
Everlasting.ag publicly introduced the launch of the Harvester in March after the corporate emerged from stealth mode.
Van Noord Growers is one in all many greenhouse growers feeling the influence of structural labor shortages that are affecting the horticulture business globally.
Whereas its first Harvester is at the moment working alongside present human staff, the grower has begun the method of automating to arrange for a future when guide labor is not obtainable on the wanted scale.
The deployment at Van Noord Growers marks step one of everlasting.ag’s worldwide scaling plans.
Jeffry Van Noord (foremost image), co-owner of Van Noord Growers, mentioned: “We develop a high-quality product and delight ourselves on that. That makes our crops and our clients prime precedence.
“Everlasting.ag’s method to the labor disaster absolutely aligns with our wants as, over the subsequent 10 to fifteen years, we anticipate labor will develop into so quick that the majority of our operations will should be automated. That’s why we’re already scaling automation and intend to increase this throughout different greenhouse capabilities and crops.”
Renji John, CEO and co-founder of everlasting.ag, mentioned: “Scaling our first industrial deployment is a major milestone for everlasting.ag and reveals that our robots are capable of carry out at anticipated ranges in real-world environments. This is likely one of the most technically troublesome challenges in agricultural robotics on account of crop and surroundings variability.
“Van Noord Growers’ urge for food to develop the deployment to 3 Harvesters serves as a transparent indication of their confidence in our answer and within the potential of automation.”
