2022
Cannabis Business Executive
“Gowa anticipates other cannabis applications for the AI, including automated defoliation in multi-tier grow rooms, harvest-weight prediction, and foliage density assessment to mitigate micro-climates that breed pathogens.”
2022
Robotics Tomorrow
“Bloom Automation's system requires little attention from the operator, allowing personnel to perform additional tasks while the machine runs.”
2022
Ganjapreneur
"With cannabis processing expenses estimated at more than 20% of total cultivation costs, the faster AI may save Bloom’s clients millions in the coming years."
2020
Forbes
"Woburn, Mass.-based Bloom Automation has cut itself a niche automating the cannabis harvesting process. The startup designed human-collaborative robotic trimming technology and is reportedly in discussions with at least one 'Big Cannabis' player, according to The Buzz."
2019
Robotics Business Review
“To boost productivity, cannabis growers are turning to solutions such as those from Bloom Automation. The company produces robots that are programmed with machine vision and path-planning algorithms. These robots have 'learned' the cannabis crop... Such technology seems to be working... Bloom claims a 97% accuracy and a doubling of the efficiency capable of humans performing the same task."
2018
Marijuana Business Magazine
“Bloom Automation, a Massachusetts robotics startup, is bringing decades of experience in military and agricultural robotics and autonomous navigation to cannabis cultivators and processors.”
2017
CNBC
“Another area we're excited about is robotics and its application to speed harvest times so we put money into Bloom Automation.”
2017
Business Insider
“Another area we're excited about is robotics and its application to speed harvest times so we put money into Bloom Automation.”