AgroFresh announces AI imaging and orchard analytics tie-ups with Aerobotics, Neolithics

AgroFresh Solutions, a post-harvest freshness supplier, is expanding its FreshCloud digital ecosystem through strategic global partnerships with Aerobotics and Neolithics, according to a news release.

The company says the partnerships position its FreshCloud software as a comprehensive digital produce quality and supply chain platform.

By aggregating data from multiple sources, FreshCloud offers options at each step in the fresh produce supply chain for digitally integrated, quality measurements. Building on its existing partnerships with sensor innovators Rubens Technologies, Strella, and Escavox, AgroFresh continues to expand its connected sensor (aka IoT, or Internet of Things) platform for post-harvest management.

The company says its digital ecosystem empowers growers, packers and retailers to make faster, data-backed decisions to reduce waste, improve quality and drive profit potential.

“By integrating partners like Aerobotics and Neolithics, FreshCloud now connects orchard-to-packhouse intelligence like never before,” said  Bradford Warner, AgroFresh’s head of digital solutions, said in the release.

TrueFruit by Aerobotics

The partnership with Aerobotics integrates multiple TrueFruit modules into FreshCloud, delivering AI-powered orchard and packhouse intelligence, according to the company.

Using computer vision and AI analysis of smartphone imagery, Aerobotics enables growers to:

• Measure fruit size, color, and quality accurately and objectively.
• Harvest plan with accurate size forecasting, blemish detection, and color grading models.
• Monitor quality with standardized measurements, from the orchard to the packhouse.
• View yield data in one place for informed decisions that can help boost packouts by an average of 1-5%, providing more than 10 times return on investment for commercial customers, the company claims.

Quality control with Neolithics

With Neolithics integration with FreshCloud, packers have access to a technology that delivers quality assurance to match the speed and scale of the modern packhouse, turning inspection into a source of confidence versus risk.

AgroFresh says Neolithics’ AI-powered imaging:

• Provides high-throughput inspection, from one kilogram per minute for berries to over six tons per hour for avocados, with internal and external quality scans.
• Measures key parameters such as brix, acidity, and dry matter, while detecting internal and surface defects.
• Completes the QC process without destroying a single piece of fruit, with over 90% accuracy.

Learn more at AgroFresh.com.