Four Growers
About
About Four Growers
Four Growers develops autonomous harvesting systems for commercial greenhouses. The GR-100 travels crop rows and uses a robotic arm calibrated with four stereo cameras to detect fruit, judge ripeness and pick tomatoes, bringing perception, manipulation and crop handling into one mobile platform.
A fleet dashboard gives growers remote visibility into robot operation and harvest activity. The same cameras and sensors generate fruit counts and yield heatmaps at intervals down to three metres, linking harvesting with plant-level production analytics. Four Growers rates the system for continuous operation, ripe-fruit precision of 98% and throughput up to 43 kilograms per hour for small tomatoes, with performance dependent on crop and configuration.
Articles
Products
- GR-100
GR
Deployments
- Customer site
2025-10-27 - Westburg Greenhouse adopted Four Growers GR-200 robotic tomato harvesters for commercial greenhouse operations. - single named greenhouse deployment - Westburg Greenhouse
Source
Supply
Supply chain relationships
- FRAMOS
Inbound - Perception - Four Growers GR-100 integrates FRAMOS D435e stereo cameras for crop perception
Source - FRAMOS
Inbound - Perception - Four Growers GR-100 integrates FRAMOS D415e stereo cameras for crop perception
Source - Beckhoff Automation
Inbound - actuation and motion control - Four Growers GR-200 uses Beckhoff AM8000 servomotors
Source - Beckhoff Automation
Inbound - Compute & Control - Four Growers GR-200 uses Beckhoff TwinCAT/BSD operating system
Source - Beckhoff Automation
Inbound - Compute & Control - Four Growers GR-200 uses Beckhoff EtherCAT modular I/O terminals
Source - Beckhoff Automation
Inbound - actuation and motion control - Four Growers GR-200 uses Beckhoff CX5230 Embedded PC
Source - FANUC
Inbound - actuation and motion control - Four Growers GR-200 incorporates a FANUC LR Mate robot arm for tomato harvesting
Source - Beckhoff Automation
Inbound - Compute & Control - Four Growers GR-200 uses Beckhoff TwinCAT control software
Source - Beckhoff Automation
Inbound - Compute & Control - Four Growers GR-200 uses Beckhoff TwinSAFE safety system
Source - Beckhoff Automation
Inbound - Compute & Control - Four Growers GR-200 uses Beckhoff EL6224 IO-Link master terminals
Source - Beckhoff Automation
Inbound - actuation and motion control - Four Growers GR-200 uses Beckhoff ELM7231-9018 servo terminals
Source
Funding
- 2024-11-21 - Series A - $9M - Four Growers raises USD 9M Series A
Four Growers raised USD 9 million in Series A funding to scale production of its GR-100 greenhouse harvesting robot. - source: thepacker.com
Investors
- Basset Capital - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-11-21
- Ospraie Ag Science - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-11-21
- Y Combinator - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-11-21
Team
- Brandon Contino - CEO and Co-founder - Founder/CEO leadership anchors Four Growers greenhouse-harvesting robotics strategy.
- Dan Chi - CTO and Co-founder - Technical founder leadership is central to the GR-100 harvesting robot and crop-analytics roadmap.
- Deepak Jayaraj - VP of Hardware Engineering and Manufacturing - Hardware and manufacturing leadership supports greenhouse robot production and scale-up.
Timeline
Events
- 2025-10-27 - Deployment - Westburg Greenhouse adopts Four Growers GR-200 harvest robots
The FANUC case study names Westburg Greenhouse and describes operational harvesting with GR-200 robots. The event adds deployment evidence beyond Four Growers' funding row. The deployment places The company's technology into agricultural, food-production or outdoor automation workflows beyond a lab-only setting.
Source - 2024-11-21 - Funding - Four Growers raises USD 9M Series A
Basset Capital led the round with participation from Ospraie Ag Science, Y Combinator and existing investors. The funding supported GR-100 production scaling and expansion across greenhouse growing regions. The capital supports inspection, monitoring or infrastructure automation workflows as Four Growers moves toward broader commercial use.
Source
Relations
Relationships
- FANUC
Robot Arm Partner - Four Growers GR-200 harvesting robots use FANUC industrial robot hardware in the Westburg Greenhouse deployment.
- Westburg Greenhouse
Greenhouse Deployment - Four Growers GR-200 robots were adopted for tomato harvesting at Westburg Greenhouse.
Context
Comparable profiles
- HarvestX
comparable profile - Greenhouse Crop Robotics
- Floating Robotics
comparable profile - Greenhouse Harvesting Robotics
- Tevel
comparable profile - Fruit Harvesting Robotics
- Canopii
comparable profile - Greenhouse Crop Robotics
- Fieldwork Robotics
comparable profile - Fruit Harvesting Robotics
- Agrobot
comparable profile - Fruit Harvesting Robotics
Context tags
- Greenhouse crop robotics - Peer Group - Four Growers serves controlled-environment agriculture with robotic harvesting and crop analytics.
- Greenhouse harvesting robotics - Peer Group - Four Growers builds GR-100 harvesting robots for greenhouse crops.
- Fruit harvesting robotics - Peer Group - Four Growers focuses on robotic harvesting of greenhouse produce including tomatoes.
