Vertical farming company Oishii has acquired the key intellectual property (IP) and assets from Tortuga AgTech, a harvest robotics startup. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The acquisition includes Tortuga’s artificial intelligence (AI) models, frontier robotics software and custom hardware. Oishii will integrate these new technologies into its robotics system, which was developed in partnership with Yaskawa Robotics.

Colorado-based Tortuga AgTech is best known for its robots that harvest strawberries, table grapes and berries, in addition to collecting data from plants and performing a few other tasks such as trimming and treating plants with UV-C light.

Oishii has used automation since it was first established in 2016. The company currently uses robotics in its vertical farms to detect ripeness in each strawberry before picking it. The Amatelas Farm – Oishii’s 237,500 square foot facility located in New Jersey – currently uses around 50 ‘bots, which can also capture data that’s used over time to adjust environmental variables like light, temperature and wind speed. The company said the Tortuga AgTech acquisition will help it stay at the forefront of technological innovation.