Electric Sheep Robotics
About
About Electric Sheep Robotics
Electric Sheep Robotics developed autonomy for commercial mowing by combining onboard perception and control with data gathered through operating landscaping businesses. Its robots were deployed on real customer properties, where repeated mowing across changing terrain, vegetation and weather produced the field data used to improve navigation and task performance. The company’s original model joined robotics development with ownership of service providers, giving the engineering team direct access to deployment, maintenance and customer workflows.
Oso Electric Equipment acquired Electric Sheep Robotics in October 2025 and retained its team and autonomy technology. The current Oso business applies that software to electric outdoor equipment, supported by fleet tracking, diagnostics and a cloud dashboard for deployed machines. Its Large World Model programme is intended to learn from real operating environments rather than controlled test sites. Electric Sheep should therefore be presented as the acquired autonomy business behind Oso’s current equipment platform, not as an independent company merely trading under a new name.
Funding
- 2022-01-25 - Series A - $21.5M - Electric Sheep Robotics raises USD 21.5 million Series A
Electric Sheep Robotics raised USD 21.5 million in a Series A led by Tiger Global and made Dexter generally available. - source: businesswire.com
Investors
- Foundation Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-01-25
- grep-vc - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-01-25
- Signia Venture Partners - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-01-25
- Tiger Global - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-01-25
Timeline
Events
- 2025-10-20 - Acquisition - Oso Electric Equipment acquires Electric Sheep Robotics
Oso Electric Equipment acquired Electric Sheep Robotics after the companies introduced a jointly developed smart mower earlier in 2025. The combination joined Oso electric powertrains and field operations with Electric Sheep machine learning and autonomy. The combined business adopted the Oso Robotics name for commercial outdoor equipment.
Source - 2022-01-25 - Funding - Electric Sheep Robotics raises USD 21.5 million Series A
Tiger Global led the USD 21.5 million Series A financing. Foundation Capital, grep-vc, Signia Venture Partners and earlier individual investors also participated. The company paired the financing with general availability of its Dexter autonomous-mowing system.
Source - 2021-08-26 - Company Formation - Electric Sheep Robotics launches with autonomous mower retrofit
Dexter was introduced as a clamp-on autonomy kit for existing commercial lawn mowers. The system combined LiDAR, cameras, GPS and ultrasonic sensing with remote monitoring. The launch disclosed approximately USD 4 million in seed funding led by Foundation Capital.
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Notes
Profile notes
- Electric Sheep acquires landscaping operators and deploys robotics inside the combined service business
reviewed 2026-07-18 - Electric Sheep does not rely only on selling autonomous lawn equipment to third parties. It acquires conventional landscaping companies, retains their customer operations and progressively introduces its own software and robots across the combined outdoor-maintenance business.
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Relations
Relationships
- Oso Electric Equipment
Acquirer - Oso Electric Equipment acquired Electric Sheep Robotics and combined the operations under the Oso Robotics name.