MiFood began with a simple truth most people never see: farming is getting harder every year. The founders, fifth-generation farmers turned engineers, grew up watching the pressures build. Labor shortages kept rising. Costs ate into every season. Crops demanded closer attention than any team could provide. And traditional machinery struggled to keep up with the level of precision modern agriculture now requires.
They had lived this reality since childhood. They had endured the long nights, the uncertainty, and the unpredictable harvests. And as technology evolved, they saw a path forward that didn’t rely on bigger machines or more chemicals, but on intelligence (the kind only robotics and computer vision could deliver).
So they built MiFood to do something agriculture had never been able to do at scale: treat every single plant as an individual.
From industrial farming to intelligent farming
At the center of MiFood’s innovation is the MiFood Robot, an autonomous platform capable of recognizing, evaluating, and acting on the needs of each plant. Its vision system identifies weeds, removes them mechanically, and spots ripe fruit with accuracy far beyond human capability. The robot constantly moves through the rows with quiet consistency, learning the field as it works.
This shift from field-level farming to plant-level precision changes the economics entirely. Farmers can reduce labor requirements dramatically, cut back on pesticides, and gather real-time insights about crop health. Instead of reacting to problems, farms can finally prevent them.
What used to require teams of seasonal workers can now be done through intelligent autonomy, freeing farms from unpredictable labor cycles and unstable costs.
What real-world farming looks like with MiFood
MiFood’s technology has already been tested in the places that matter most: real farms with real crops and real stakes.
Daifress Berry farms in Poland and Spain ran the robot through full harvesting seasons and recorded results that exceeded expectations.
The vision system reached a 98.5 percent fruit detection rate, and marketable yield increased by 15 percent because ripe fruit was consistently identified at the right moment. Farm managers reported that they completed the entire season without hiring labor for weeding, saving more than ten thousand euros.
Farmers started calling the robot part of their team — not because it replaced workers, but because it helped them run a better farm.
A company growing its roots globally
Since its early prototypes, MiFood has grown from a three-robot experiment into a scalable solution used across multiple countries. Along the way, the team secured a utility patent for its vision system, earned recognition through the Poland Prize awards in 2019 and 2022, and became the winner of the Labena Ventures Accelerator in 2025.
Six years of iteration have shaped MiFood into a full precision-farming platform. Every robot pass generates data that becomes part of a long-term feedback system that enables farmers to look at their fields as datasets that help them prepare for next season with clarity, confidence, and less risk.
Technology shaped by soil, not spreadsheets
MiFood stands out because it was designed by people who know farming from the inside out. The team blends agricultural heritage with computer vision expertise, robotics engineering, and years of on-field testing. Their guiding principle is straightforward: build on the farm, not in the lab.
Every improvement to the robot came from countless hours walking alongside growers, watching how crops respond, and adjusting technology until it earned its spot in the field. That mix of respect for tradition and hunger for innovation is what gives MiFood its identity.
What comes next
MiFood is now preparing to expand into North America and Western Europe, scaling manufacturing and launching MiFood Scout, which is an automated scouting module that helps detect diseases, stress, and nutrient issues early.
Longer term, the company aims to build a fully autonomous farm management system capable of planting, weeding, monitoring, and harvesting with minimal human intervention. It’s a vision of agriculture where farmers make decisions supported by data rather than guesswork, and where sustainability is a natural outcome of precision.
MiFood is transforming agriculture by giving farmers the tools to meet today’s challenges with confidence. Watching their journey unfold, it’s clear they are driven by more than innovation. They are driven by responsibility. Responsibility to crops, to land, and to the people who feed the world.
It has been a privilege to support them and watch as they help farming evolve into something more resilient, more intelligent, and more hopeful for the future.