Welcome to IONCO

Fruit harvesting remains one of the greatest challenges facing growers today. Besides representing up to 40% of total production costs, labor management has always been a problem, and is becoming more so each year.

IONco is in the business of developing fully automated, robotic pickers for tree fruit. These devices are driven by machine vision that identifies the location of pickable fruit. The use of proprietary technology will allow the safe removal of up to 16 varieties of tree fruit which can be transported to a packing crate or a cull bin more delicately than the human hand.

NEWS RELEASE 10.01.08

As of October 1st, 2008, Ionco Inc. of Eagle, Idaho, a member of a large research consortium, has been funded for research and development from the 2008 Federal Farm Bill.  Partners in the consortium include Carnegie Mellon University and USDA ARS Laboratory at Kerneysville, W. Virginia.  For a full listing of the members of the consortium Click Here.