Harvest Automation
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Harvest Automation, Inc. is a robotics
Robotics
Robotics is the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation, structural disposition, manufacture and application of robots...

 startup founded by several former iRobot
IRobot
iRobot Corporation is an American advanced technology company founded in 1990 and incorporated in Delaware in 2000, the iRobot Corporation designs robots such as an autonomous home vacuum cleaner , the Scooba that scrubs and cleans hard floors, and military and police robots, such as the PackBot...

 employees, including Joe Jones, the co-inventor of the Roomba
Roomba
The Roomba is a series of autonomous robotic vacuum cleaners sold by iRobot. Under normal operating conditions, it is able to navigate a living space and common obstacles while vacuuming the floor...

robotic vacuum cleaner. The company's goal is to find new applications for robots. Their first planned robot will be used at container farms to space apart potted plants as they grow. This is a very labor-intensive job, and the robot to do it would be relatively simple, it would just need to pick up each potted plant and move it a little further from other plants.

In January, 2010, the company received in financing from several investors.
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