Canadian Firm, TechBrew Robotics, based out of Salmon Arm, B.C., is focused on solving the mushroom growing industry’s problem with labour shortages with a robot capable of picking 20 mushrooms per minute.
The robot runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and over that time can apparently do the work of four human workers.
“The two biggest technical challenges are actually defining the right mushroom to pick and then picking it without damaging it because they’re very delicate,” said Mike Boudreau, the president and CEO of TechBrew.
