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What would robots save your greenhouse?

Put in your greenhouse and the jobs you'd hand over. Defaults come from Wageningen research where it exists and are marked as estimates where it doesn't. Change any of them.

Your greenhouse

Crop
ha
Your estimate
€ per hour

All-in: wages, agency margin, housing and travel.

WUR
h per ha a year

All crop work: harvesting, leaves, twisting, lowering and the rest. The default is for tomatoes; change it if your crop differs.

Heating pipes between the rows?

SPINE rides the heating pipes already in the greenhouse.

Jobs to hand over

SPINE is the base. Switch on the jobs you'd give the robots, and set how much of each they take.

SPINE

The base

Always on

Rides the heating pipes and carries whichever module the job needs.

BLUSH

Harvesting

Picks ripe fruit, checks the stem before the jaws close, and wraps the fruit instead of squeezing it.

WUR
%
Your assumption
%

SHEAR

Deleafing

Strips the old leaves below the trusses.

WUR
%
Your assumption
%

HOIST

Lowering and rehanging

Lowers the plants and moves the hooks along the wire.

Estimate
%
Your assumption
%

RAVEN

Scouting

Walks the rows for pests and disease, and marks where they start.

Estimate
%
Your assumption
%

Assumptions

Provisional
%

Vinea is rented like a crew, service included, and always priced below the labour it replaces. This share is provisional until after the pilot.

Your estimate
%

How much dearer labour gets each year.

Your estimate
h a year

Turns hours into people.

years

Job by job

  • Robots
  • Still by hand

  • BLUSHHarvesting

    €422,037 / €180,873

  • SHEARDeleafing

    €378,378 / €162,162

Year by year

  • All by hand
  • With Vinea
Year by year
YearAll by handWith Vinea
1€1,143,450€903,326
2€1,177,754€930,425
3€1,213,086€958,338
4€1,249,479€987,088
5€1,286,963€1,016,701

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How it's worked out

  1. Crop hours = area × crop-work hours per hectare.
  2. A job's hours = crop hours × that job's share.
  3. Robot hours = a job's hours × how much of it the robots take over.
  4. Labour replaced = robot hours × labour cost. Rent = labour replaced × Vinea's share. Saving = labour replaced − rent.
  5. Each later year grows by the wage growth you set. People = robot hours ÷ the hours a worker puts in.
  6. The WUR shares are for the six main crop jobs in tomato: harvesting, removing leaves, de-shooting and twisting, clipping, lowering and truss pruning. Laid over all your crop hours, they run a little high if some of those hours go to other work.
  7. Lowering and scouting have no published share. The six main jobs leave about a quarter of the hours to clipping, lowering and truss pruning, so lowering starts at a third of that. Scouting starts as a guess.

Sources

SourcedYour estimateProvisional