(4 Mar 2025)
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Barcelona, March 3, 2025
1. Mid of Four Years From Now (4YFN) pavilion entrance
2. Wide of Enkitek startup stand
3. Various of co-founder and partner checking robotic arm picking mock strawberries on display
4. Cutaway to screen
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Victor Canton, CEO and co-founder of Enkitek
“If they (farmers) have a problem, for instance a pest or a disease in their farms, currently there has to be always people checking and monitoring. With our technology, we also use AI applied to computer vision. We deploy several cameras in the operation, and we are able to detect automatically if we have a pest, or a lack of water or nutrients. And we instantly send a notification to the farm. So they can make the necessary actions to solve that.”
6. Various of co-founder of Enkitek checking on monitor conditions at a farm using their own software to control humidity, pests, and other indicators
7. Cutaway to mock farm on display
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Four Years From Now (4YFN) is a startup event at MWC in Barcelona with the mission of supporting the growth of founders of tech startups.
It started in 2014 as a very small side event of Mobile World Congress at a separate venue.
Today Four Years From Now has become a top attraction at Mobile World Congress.
This pavilion hosts dozens of ambitious start-ups bustling with ideas and a clear goal to become the next tech giants.
Including a robot fruit picker that uses AI to improve crop yields.
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Enkitek is Spanish start-up is based in Catalonia and the Basque country.
Founded in 2021, Enkitek developed their own software, aimed to help farmers in their everyday tasks.
They bill themselves as “hardware agnostic” leaving to their clients to choose the technological tools that better suit their needs.
Their 360º platform allow farmers monitor, digitalize and automate their crops in order to reduce operational costs as well as maximizing efficiency.
Among their automate tasks, the help control this robotic arm to harvest berries.
Previously, AI enhanced cameras were able to detect the berries that were ready to be picked.
Victor Canton, CEO and co-founder of Enkitek explains how AI now also monitors the health of the fruit.
“If they (farmers) have a problem, for instance a pest or a disease in their farms, currently there has to be always people checking and monitoring. With our technology, we also use AI applied to computer vision. We deploy several cameras in the operation, and we are able to detect automatically if we have a pest, or a lack of water or nutrients. And we instantly send a notification to the farm. So they can make the necessary actions to solve that.”
They’ve custom made platforms for farmers to automatize tasks including robotic arms that can handle certain operations to enhanced AI cameras able to notify when there is a problem with a certain plant.
The team hope to deploy robot fruit pickers in fields in the not too distant future.
AP Video by German Martinez
Production by Hernan Munoz
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