Autonomous Indoor Farming

€7.65M EUR

Funder	European Commission
Recipient Organization	Saia Agrobotics Bv
Country	Netherlands
Start Date	Jan 01, 2023
End Date	Dec 31, 2024
Duration	730 days
Number of Grantees	2
Roles	Coordinator; Third Party
Data Source	European Commission
Grant ID	`190101308`

Grant Description

AUTOFARM brings a disruptive and novel automated way of operating greenhouses to the market, applying a revolutionary new growing system that unlocks plant mobility for optimal use of robotisation and artificial intelligence. World-wide the high-tech indoor farm sector is expanding from 60k hectares to 80k in 2025.

This growth is triggered by the societal need for climate resilient food production, the fast growing market demand for fresh food and the economic need for greater resource use efficiency.

To enable this growth, many high-tech indoor farming processes have been standardised and optimised, but the automation of labour availability and crop management is lagging behind.SAIA introduces through AUTOFARM a paradigm shift towards a food factory of the future where 50% of the labour is automated and crop management is supported by data mining and artificial intelligence.

SAIA’s novel plant system enables year-round steady production which allows for 30% more yield.