LYRO Robotics
About
About LYRO Robotics
LYRO Robotics develops machine vision and robotic automation for food production and packing lines with variable products. Its Variability Intelligence software evaluates differences in shape, size, orientation, colour, quality and flow, turning camera data into inspection decisions or robot actions.
The Lyro Mi industrial computer connects to existing production equipment through industrial protocols and is designed for continuous, washdown-capable environments. Customers can deploy the Vision Platform for defect detection, label verification and quality control, then add Robotic Pick & Pack for sorting and packing diverse items with vision-guided grasping. LYRO delivers projects directly and through certified systems integrators, avoiding wholesale replacement of existing lines.
Funding
- 2022-07-14 - Pre-Series A - $985K - LYRO Robotics raises AUD 1.5 million pre-Series A
LYRO Robotics raised AUD 1.5 million to increase production of autonomous produce-packing robots. - source: basspr.com.au
Timeline
Events
- 2023-06-14 - Contract Award - LYRO Robotics receives AUD 2 million commercialisation grant
The award supports LYRO Robotics Pty Ltd under the Entrepreneurs Programme Accelerating Commercialisation stream. LYRO is developing an intelligent robot for post-harvest sorting and packing of fruit and vegetables. The grant period runs from June 14, 2023 through March 31, 2026.
Source - 2022-07-14 - Funding - LYRO Robotics raises AUD 1.5 million pre-Series A
Artesian through Boab AI and AgFunder joined original investor Toyo Kanetsu in the round. LYRO planned to fulfil orders for more than 20 robotic packing systems. Its robot-as-a-service model targeted fruit and vegetable packers facing labour shortages and variable produce handling.
Source
Notes
Profile notes
- Lyro’s packing robot moved from technology development into a per-pack service with the vendor carrying deployment risk
reviewed 2026-07-20 - Lyro Robotics uses a robotic packing cell for variable fresh produce but charges customers through a robotics-as-a-service model. That shifts utilisation, maintenance and technical-performance risk toward Lyro rather than requiring a packhouse to buy a fixed machine. The commercial product is the packing outcome and service commitment, not merely the robot hardware.
Source
Commercial
- LYRO Robotics receives AUD 2 million commercialisation grant
2023-06-14 · Order / contract · The Australian government awarded LYRO Robotics AUD 2 million to commercialise its intelligent post-harvest sorting and packing system.
Source