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Robotics Plus designs and builds elegant technologies that improve quality, productivity and sustainability across the food and fibre supply chain through automation, via a suite of machine vision, robotics, artificial intelligence and analytics, softwareTurnover: $3.46 million in 2018/19 and budgeted $34.46m in 2022/23
Staff: 60, and plan to double the number by 2023
Compound annual growth rate: 79% between 2017 and 2023
Percentage of revenue in exports and where: 75% in 2018/19 and plan to grow to 85% by 2023. US, France and the UK. Targeting other western European countries for fruit packing and the US, Canada, Scandinavia, Russia and South America for log scaling.
Tauranga-based start-up Robotics Plus has developed bold plans to shake up the horticultural industry with automation both here and overseas.
Robotics Plus, founded by Steve Saunders and Alistair Scarfe in 2013, wants to increase revenue 10 times to more than $34 million by 2023 and double
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