Bonsai Robotics
About
About Bonsai Robotics
Bonsai's Visionsteer system uses cameras and onboard AI to navigate agricultural vehicles through orchards and vineyards without depending on GNSS. The software identifies rows, obstacles and drivable terrain in dust, darkness and changing crop conditions, then controls the host vehicle through its drive-by-wire interface.
The platform can retrofit existing equipment or run on farm-ng's Amiga electric vehicle, which Bonsai added through its 2025 acquisition of farm-ng. Fleet software supports remote supervision and mission management across mowing, spraying, weeding and transport operations, drawing on field data collected across more than one million acres.
Articles
Products
- Amiga Flex
Amiga
- Amiga Flex WEED-IT
Amiga Flex
- Amiga Max
Amiga
Supply
Supply chain relationships
- NVIDIA
Inbound - Software - Bonsai World builds on NVIDIA Cosmos to generate realistic simulations for autonomous machines in rugged environments
Source
Funding
- 2025-01-28 - Series A - $15M - Bonsai Robotics raises $15M Series A
Bison Ventures led the financing to develop Bonsai Robotics' agricultural autonomy platform and expand commercial adoption. - source: businesswire.com
- 2023-10-02 - Seed - $13.5M - Bonsai Robotics raises $13.5 million seed round
Bonsai Robotics raised a $13.5 million seed round to accelerate vision-based autonomous systems for orchards and other off-road environments. - source: globenewswire.com
Investors
- Acre Venture Partners - Lead - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2023-10-02 - latest 2025-01-28
- Congruent Ventures - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2023-10-02 - latest 2025-01-28
- E14 Fund - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2023-10-02 - latest 2025-01-28
- Fall Line Capital - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2023-10-02 - latest 2025-01-28
- Serra Ventures - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2023-10-02 - latest 2025-01-28
- SNR Ventures - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2023-10-02 - latest 2025-01-28
- Andros - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-10-02
- Bison Ventures - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-01-28
- Cibus Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-01-28
- Lee Redden - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-10-02
- Matt Barnard - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-10-02
- Travis Deyle - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-10-02
Team
- Tyler Niday - Co-Founder and CEO - Leads Bonsai's autonomy strategy for off-road and agricultural equipment.
- Ugur Oezdemir - Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer - Leads core autonomy technology for Bonsai's off-road robotics platform.
- Gary Bradski - Chief Science Officer - Contributes computer-vision leadership to Bonsai's autonomy platform.
- Brendan Dowdle - Chief Financial Officer - Supports Bonsai's post-acquisition finance and business integration with farm-ng.
- Arlen Frew - Chief Revenue Officer - Leads revenue activity for Bonsai's off-road autonomy business.
- Ben Poutre - Chief Operating Officer - Leads operations for Bonsai's off-road autonomy business.
Timeline
Events
- 2026-10-02 - Product Launch - Bonsai Robotics launches Bonsai World for rugged-environment autonomy simulation
Satellite imagery becomes structured 3D scenarios with terrain, dust, debris, animals and vehicle variations. The company says its underlying models use more than 50 million real-world samples gathered across more than one million acres. Google Gemini interprets imagery; Google Cloud virtual machines and NVIDIA GPUs support training and generated-environment inference.
Source - 2025-10-21 - Product Launch - Bonsai Robotics unveils Amiga Flex
Amiga Flex debuted alongside the Amiga Trax and Amiga Max after Bonsai Robotics acquired farm-ng. The modular electric platform targets outdoor R&D and light-duty commercial work including weeding, hauling, towing and crop scouting. Bonsai specified an 800 lb combined payload, 700 lb lift, 1,600 lb towing capacity and more than eight hours of runtime per battery pack.
Source - 2025-07-24 - Acquisition - Bonsai Robotics acquires farm-ng to combine autonomy software and modular farm robots
The deal joined Bonsai autonomy technology with farm-ng Amiga-style modular farm robots and developer ecosystem. Bonsai said the combined company would focus on autonomous farming systems across specialty-crop operations. The acquisition is separate from farm-ng earlier funding and adds a new consolidation milestone to Bonsai timeline.
Source - 2025-01-28 - Funding - Bonsai Robotics raises $15M Series A
Cibus Capital joined existing investors Acre Venture Partners, Congruent Ventures, Fall Line Capital, E14 Fund, SNR and Serra Ventures. Proceeds support software and dataset development, additional equipment-manufacturer partnerships and commercial expansion. At the announcement, more than 40 machines using Bonsai autonomy had been deployed in tree-nut orchards in the United States and Australia.
Source - 2023-10-02 - Funding - Bonsai Robotics raises $13.5 million seed round
E14 Fund, Congruent Ventures, Serra Ventures, Fall Line Capital, SNR Ventures and Andros participated, alongside angels Travis Deyle, Lee Redden and Matt Barnard. The capital supports product development, hiring and sales and marketing. California growers including Pomona Farming tested the technology during the 2023 harvest, while equipment partnerships included OMC and Flory Industries.
Source
Relations
Relationships
- farm-ng
Acquired Company - Bonsai Robotics acquired farm-ng to combine autonomy software and modular farm robot platforms.
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Context tags
- Agricultural robot development - Workflow - Profile source supports this robotics context.
- Agricultural robotics workflow - Workflow - Profile source supports this robotics context.
- Mobile-robot autonomy stack - Stack Layer - Profile source supports this robotics context.
