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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.



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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.
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