SITIA
About
About SITIA
SITIA was founded in 1986 on the École Centrale de Nantes campus and operates from Bouguenais, France. Its broader engineering business designs test benches, special machines, automation and simulation systems. Robotics is therefore a defined company-controlled operating lane rather than the entirety of SITIA’s industrial identity.
TREKTOR is the main product supporting the Korthos classification. The autonomous rechargeable tractor is designed to use existing implements across vineyards, horticulture, open-field vegetables and orchards, performing repetitive tasks such as tillage, spraying and hoeing. Navigation, perception and localization sensors support unattended operation, while an onboard generator extends working endurance. SITIA remains responsible for the platform and its integration, distinguishing the company from a research-only agricultural project.
Products
Deployments
- Operating use
TREKTOR completed one month of autonomous weeding at an organic vineyard in the Loire Valley using a Septentrio AsteRx SB dual-antenna GNSS receiver. - Organic vineyard
Source
Supply
Supply chain relationships
- Septentrio
Inbound - Navigation - Septentrio supplies the AsteRx SB dual-antenna GNSS receiver integrated into SITIA TREKTOR
Source
Team
- Fabien Arignon - Chief Executive Officer
Timeline
Events
- 2025-05-12 - Acquisition - Manitou Group acquires SITIA robotics business
Seven SITIA robotics employees joined Manitou Group under the transaction. The transfer included the robotics division's intellectual property. Manitou positioned the acquisition as an expansion of its robotics development capacity.
Source
Relations
Relationships
- Manitou Group
Acquirer Of Robotics Business - Manitou Group acquired SITIA's robotics business, including its seven-person team and the division's intellectual property.
Context
Shared workflows
- AIGRO
workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Builder · Autonomous Agricultural Platforms · Field Agriculture Robotics
- Upside Robotics
workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Builder · Field Agriculture Robotics
- SwarmFarm Robotics
workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Builder · Field Agriculture Robotics
- ANT Robotics
workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Builder · Field Agriculture Robotics
- Forest3 AI
workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Builder · Field Agriculture Robotics
- Fieldwork Robotics
workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Builder · Field Agriculture Robotics
- FarmWise
workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Builder · Field Agriculture Robotics
- EarthSense
workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Builder · Field Agriculture Robotics
- Monarch Tractor
workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Builder · Field Agriculture Robotics
- Antobot
workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Builder · Field Agriculture Robotics
- Blue River Technology
workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Builder · Field Agriculture Robotics
- Aurova Robotics
workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Builder · Autonomous Agricultural Platforms
- E-TERRY
workflow adjacency - Autonomous Agricultural Platforms · Field Agriculture Robotics
- FarmDroid
workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Builder
- Directed Machines
workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Builder
- VitiBot
workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Builder
- Sabi Agri
workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Builder
- GUSS Automation
workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Builder
- Bonsai Robotics
workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Builder
- Lely
workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Builder
- BouMatic
workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Builder
- Fullwood
workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Builder
- Odd.Bot
workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Builder
- Tensorfield Agriculture
workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Builder
- Leaficient
workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Builder
- WashPower
workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Builder
- Harvested Robotics
workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Builder
- Smart Farm Robotix
workflow adjacency - Field Agriculture Robotics
- Agrobot
workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Builder
- Xihe Robotics (芯禾机器人)
workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Builder
Context tags
- Agricultural robot development - Workflow - Verified against official or first-disclosure product and application evidence during 2026-08-10 enrichment.
- Robot OEM - Stack Layer - Verified against official or first-disclosure product and application evidence during 2026-08-10 enrichment.
- Field agriculture robotics workflow - Workflow - Verified against official or first-disclosure product and application evidence during 2026-08-10 enrichment.
- Autonomous agricultural platforms - Workflow - Verified against official or first-disclosure product and application evidence during 2026-08-10 enrichment.