Case Study: advanced.farm accelerates apple-picking model training with Scale AI

With Scale Rapid, advanced.farm Scales its Apple-Picking Operations

Advanced.farm, a robotics company building automation for agriculture, needed a faster way to produce large volumes of high-quality annotations for its apple-picking computer vision models. As it expanded from strawberries to apples and worked across multiple orchard varieties, its in-house labeling capacity couldn’t keep up with the demand for rapid dataset creation and model retraining. Scale AI, using its Rapid labeling service, became the vendor they turned to for faster turnaround.

With Scale AI Rapid, advanced.farm was able to upload images and receive tens of thousands of annotations within 24 hours, including complex projects with multiple attributes. Scale AI delivered 50,000 annotations in a day at high quality, compared with a week from other providers, helping advanced.farm iterate faster during the apple season and scale into new orchards in days rather than weeks.

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Peter Ferguson

Director of Business Development