Eternal.ag

Eternal.ag builds fully autonomous harvesting robots for greenhouse operations. The company was founded in 2025 by Renji John and Sherry Kunjachan and emerged from stealth in March 2026, with headquarters in Cologne, Germany and an office in Bengaluru, India. It raised €8 million in funding. The problem it targets is concrete: European greenhouse labor has declined by approximately 30% since 2010, while harvest windows in tomato horticulture remain unforgiving and labor-intensive.

The flagship product, Harvester, is a fully autonomous tomato harvesting robot specified to run up to 22 hours per day, 7 days a week. That duty cycle shapes the engineering envelope - grasp reliability on variable fruit, cycle time against ripeness windows, and sustained operation without operator intervention in a structured but unstructured-enough greenhouse row environment.

Development is simulation-first. Eternal.ag uses NVIDIA Isaac Sim for robot training and builds virtual greenhouse environments to validate behavior before hardware deployment, with an explicit emphasis on exercising failure cases in software. The stated effect of this loop is iteration cycle compression from months to days - behaviors are trained and stress-tested against simulated crop, lighting, and row variations, then carried to physical units.

The company works across greenhouse agriculture, horticulture, and agritech automation in Europe. Its stated long-term target is fully autonomous greenhouse operations by 2040 with no manual intervention - a horizon the team treats as an engineering roadmap rather than a near-term claim.