Aigen
About
About Aigen
Element is a compact autonomous robot powered by solar panels integrated into its body. It travels between crop rows on four independently driven wheels, using cameras and onboard perception to distinguish cultivated plants from weeds and operate without a diesel tractor or dedicated charging station.
Aigen deploys Element robots in coordinated fleets for mechanical weed control and continuous field-data capture. The resulting visual, depth, position and action data feeds the company’s Alchemy world model, creating a learning loop between physical field work and future perception and control policies.
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Products
Supply
Supply chain relationships
- NVIDIA
Inbound - Embedded Compute - NVIDIA supplies the Jetson Orin edge-AI module used on each Aigen autonomous weeding rover to run real-time crop and weed inference
Source
Funding
- 2023-11-09 - Series A - $12M - Aigen raises $12M Series A for agricultural robotics
Aigen raised $12 million in Series A financing for its autonomous agriculture robotics business. - source: prnewswire.com
- 2022-01-18 - Seed - $4M - Aigen raises $4M seed round for solar-powered farm robots
Aigen raised a $4 million seed round to build a scalable solar-powered robotics platform for agriculture. - source: prnewswire.com
Investors
- New Enterprise Associates - Lead - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2022-01-18 - latest 2023-11-09
- ReGen Ventures - Lead - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2022-01-18 - latest 2023-11-09
- AgFunder - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-01-18
- Cleveland Avenue - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-11-09
- Global Founders Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-01-18
- Incite - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-11-09
- Susquehanna Private Equity Investments - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-11-09
Team
- Kenny Lee - Co-founder & CEO - Leads the company as chief executive as it develops and operates solar-powered agricultural robotics.
- Richard Wurden - Co-founder & CTO - As chief technology officer he leads engineering of the solar-powered autonomous weeding robots.
Timeline
Events
- 2025-04-22 - Deployment - Aigen deploys Element gen2 robot crews in Bowles cotton fields
The deployment put Element gen2 robots to work in Bowles Farming cotton fields for the 2025 growing season. Element gen2 expanded Aigen support to cotton, soy and sugar beet fields with upgraded solar power, AI compute and depth sensing.
Source - 2023-11-09 - Funding - Aigen raises $12M Series A for agricultural robotics
Aigen raised $12 million in Series A financing for its autonomous agriculture robotics business. ReGen Ventures led the round, with NEA, Cleveland Avenue, Incite and Susquehanna Private Equity Investments participating. The financing supported production scale-up and commercial expansion across more than 20,000 planned acres.
Source - 2022-01-18 - Funding - Aigen raises $4M seed round for solar-powered farm robots
Aigen raised a $4 million seed round to build a scalable solar-powered robotics platform for agriculture. NEA led the seed round, with AgFunder, Global Founders Capital and ReGen Ventures participating. The company focused the capital on soil-regeneration robotics and chemical-free plant management.
Source
Relations
Relationships
- Bowles Farming Company
Farm Deployment Partner - Aigen deployed Element gen2 robotic crews in Bowles Farming cotton fields.
Context
Shared workflows
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Context tags
- Agricultural robotics workflow - Workflow - Profile QA supports Agriculture robotics companies.
- Autonomous agricultural platforms - Workflow - Profile QA supports Autonomous agricultural platforms.