Lyro Robotics brings in .5M for robotic produce packers
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Lyro Robotics brings in $1.5M for robotic produce packers


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Lyro Robotics brings in .5M for robotic produce packers

Lyro Robotics’ produce packing robotic takes in produce from a conveyor belt and makes use of a wide range of end-effectors to choose and pack the produce. | Supply: Lyro Robotics

Lyro Robotics, an Australian firm that creates a robotic system that scans and packs produce, raised $1.5 million in a pre-Sequence A spherical of funding, in line with reporting from InnovationAus

With the newest spherical of funding, the corporate plans to ship round 20 autonomous robotic packers to agriculture shoppers. Its robotic packing resolution goals to save lots of produce by packing it extra shortly than guide packers and assist alleviate labor shortages.

Lyro Robotics designs and builds the whole know-how stack for its robotic packers. The system begins with a conveyor belt that feeds objects into Lyro’s box-shaped machine. Cameras contained in the field scan the produce to find out what the merchandise is. 

The robotic then decides learn how to grip the produce, and which grippers to make use of to choose and pack the produce. The robotic may be retrofitted into current packing strains, and is out there as a Robotic-as-a-Service (RaaS), during which prospects pay based mostly on how a lot produce is packed.

Based on the corporate, its robotic can efficiently deal with citrus fruits, chilis, rockmelons, avocados, nectarines, punnets of packed fruits like cherry tomatoes and berries, candy potatoes and capsicum. The robotic is fast to deploy, and due to its RaaS mannequin, requires little capital value up entrance for patrons. 

Artesian/Boab AI, AgFunder and Toyo Kanetsu, an current investor in Lyro Robotics, participated within the funding spherical. In April, Lyro Robotics obtained a $100,000 grant as a part of the Australian authorities’s Ignite Concepts program. 

Whereas the robotic is being aimed on the agriculture trade, it’s additionally capable of do comparable work for manufacturing and recycling shoppers. 

The corporate was based in 2019 by Juxi Leiner, Nicole Robinson and Norton Kelly-Boxall. The staff gained an Amazon Robotics Problem in 2017 for a robotic that would establish and decide up warehouse objects.

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