Apple Orchard Robotics x AI

Apple orchards have never had an instrument panel. We are building it.

ElmaLabs builds the intelligence behind orchard decisions, so growers spray less, waste less, and know exactly when and where to act.

Meet the team →Our thinking
ElmaLabs team between orchard rows during a site visit
95.8M t
Global apple production in 2022 (FAOSTAT)1
A$647M
Australia's apple industry value in 2022-232
33-51%
Share of income spent on labour in horticulture benchmarking3

Why Apple Orchards?

The global apple industry is worth billions, yet many growers struggle with thin margins. Thinning is essential for regulating yield, but getting chemical applications right is difficult and labour-intensive. ElmaLabs is changing this with smarter, target decision spraying.

Apple orchard rows with a bright sky overhead

Our system works in four connected steps:

Young green fruitlets forming on an apple tree branch
01Fruitlet identification, counting and measurements
Storm cloud looming over a green agricultural field
02Live weather forecasting
Computer screen showing bounding boxes
03Algorithms and modelling
Large agricultural sprayer in a field
04Dosage calculation & spraying

The grower in the orchard at 6am deciding whether to spray deserves a clear answer, not a guess. They feed the world. We think it is time the orchard talked back.

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