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Flying Autonomous Robots

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About Flying Autonomous Robots

Flying Autonomous Robots are orchard-harvesting machines whose control system accounts for contact with leaves and fruit during picking. Vision detects and classifies objects in the canopy, trajectory planning guides the approach, and balancing algorithms compensate for the forces acting on the flying unit as it works among foliage.

Fleet-management software uses orchard data to coordinate harvesting activity. The resulting fruit records are also assembled into information about each bin, including distributions of size, weight and colour, with timestamps and geolocation. This connects the physical picking sequence to harvest planning and the information available before the bin reaches the packing house.

08 APR 2026

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Capabilities

Source-backed capabilities

  • Workflows: Precision agriculture
  • Crop and field operations

    Customer-site use - 2022-04-19 - Tevel begins fully automated robotic harvesting in Europe

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  • Crop harvesting

    Customer-site use - 2022-04-19 - Tevel begins fully automated robotic harvesting in Europe

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  • Autonomous fruit harvesting

    Pilot - 2022-08-16 - Tevel partners with HMC Farms to pilot autonomous fruit harvesting in California

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  • Crop and field operations

    Claimed - 2023-02-14 - Tevel introduced its Alpha-Bot robotic harvesting system at World Ag Expo in Tulare, California.

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  • Crop harvesting

    Claimed - 2023-02-14 - Tevel introduced its Alpha-Bot robotic harvesting system at World Ag Expo in Tulare, California.

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  • Autonomous fruit harvesting

    Claimed - Tevel presents tethered aerial robots for computer-vision-guided fruit identification, picking and per-fruit data collection in orchards.

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  • Crop and field operations

    Claimed - Tevel presents tethered aerial robots for computer-vision-guided fruit identification, picking and per-fruit data collection in orchards.

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Deployments

  • Customer Site

    8 Flying Autonomous Robots - 2023-05-29 - Unifrutti Group - commercial apple harvesting - Unifrutti deployed eight Flying Autonomous Robots on a Darwin Harvesting ground platform in apple orchards in Linares, Chile.

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Timeline

  • Tevel secures $18M Series C funding for flying robot harvesters

    2026-03-26 - Funding - Tevel raised $18 million in Series C funding to expand its Flying Autonomous Robots harvesting business. Sound Media Ventures led the round, with Maverick Ventures Israel, Kubota, AgFunder and OurCrowd participating. The financing supports commercial expansion of Tevel's orchard-harvesting system as growers face persistent seasonal labour shortages.

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  • Tevel partners with Unifrutti and expands to South America

    2023-05-29 - Partnership - Tevel partnered with Unifrutti and deployed its autonomous harvesting system in apple orchards in Linares, Chile. The deployment used eight Flying Autonomous Robots mounted on a ground harvesting platform developed by Darwin Harvesting Group. The rollout expanded Tevel's commercial harvesting work into South America with a named global fruit producer and live orchard operations.

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  • Tevel debuts Alpha-Bot harvesting system at World Ag Expo and wins Top-10 New Product recognition

    2023-02-14 - Product Launch - Tevel introduced its Alpha-Bot robotic harvesting system at World Ag Expo in Tulare, California. The system combined eight Flying Autonomous Robots with an S&S Alpha-1 platform harvester and was tailored for modern U.S. orchard row formats. The launch shows a more productized U.S.-market configuration rather than just a lab or pilot concept.

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  • Tevel partners with HMC Farms to pilot autonomous fruit harvesting in California

    2022-08-16 - Deployment - HMC Farms partnered with Tevel to pilot its Flying Autonomous Robots in California stone-fruit orchards. Tevel said the system had already harvested peaches, nectarines, and plums during its first U.S. customer work. The deployment is one of Tevel's clearest early commercial field deployments in the U.S. orchard market.

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  • Tevel begins fully automated robotic harvesting in Europe

    2022-04-19 - Deployment - Tevel said its Flying Autonomous Robots system was set to begin fully automated harvesting in Italy from June 2022. The deployment was focused on apricot harvesting and marked one of the clearer early European commercial operating milestones for the platform. The deployment helps bridge the public timeline between the 2021 funding round and the later 2022–2023 grower deployments.

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