Renji John gets a second shot at greenhouse robots with Eternal.ag

The Cologne startup recently raised about $10 million to scale autonomous tomato harvesting, a hard robotics problem its CEO has already seen fail once.

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Primary source: Forbes

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Eternal.ag is a founder comeback story inside a hard robotics category: if John and Kunjachan can make tomato harvesting reliable, greenhouse automation moves from demo to budget line.

Illustration of an articulated robotic arm picking a ripe tomato in a greenhouse, representing Eternal.ag and founder Renji John’s autonomous tomato-harvesting robot.

Renji John is scaling Eternal.ag's autonomous tomato harvester after the Cologne agritech startup recently raised about $10 million, per Forbes, turning his second run at greenhouse robotics into a live test of whether physical AI can survive commercial greenhouse work.…

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