EarthSense

Summary

About

About EarthSense

EarthSense now focuses its Terra AI autonomy stack on oil-palm plantations, orchards and vineyards. TerraMax is a 750-kilogram-payload, all-electric four-wheel-drive robot for per-tree fertiliser application under canopy, on slopes and in dust without RTK positioning. SmartSpread brings the same dosing intelligence to conventional palm tractors, while SmartSpray adds canopy-aware application control to orchard and vineyard sprayers.

The company completed a two-year closed beta with a large sustainable-palm producer and has opened fertilising pilots as a per-hectare service. TerraMax has operated in the field since 2024 and records coverage, dosing and tree-census data for estate systems. Spraying, transport and harvesting are described as future TerraMax modules, and SmartSpread deployment is being scoped for early 2027; those boundaries remain separate from current fertilising operation.

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Products

Supply

Supply chain relationships

  • NVIDIA

    Inbound - Compute & Control - TerraSentia Plus uses NVIDIA RTX 5060 compute and offers NVIDIA Thor as an option

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  • Intel

    Inbound - Compute & Control - EarthSense TerraSentia+ uses an Intel Core Ultra 7 processor

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  • SpaceX

    Inbound - Connectivity - EarthSense offers SpaceX Starlink connectivity on TerraSentia configurations

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Funding

Investors

  • Fox Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2019-06-01
  • Illinois Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2019-06-01
  • Innova Memphis - Lead - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2019-06-01
  • The Syndicate Fund - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2019-06-01

Team

  • Chinmay Soman - CEO and Co-Founder - Leads EarthSense as it commercializes Terra robots for cover-crop planting, fertilizing and climate-smart agricultural services.
  • Girish Chowdhary - CTO and Co-Founder - Leads technical direction for EarthSense under-canopy navigation and Terra agricultural robot platforms.

Timeline

Events

  • 2020-07-22 - Deployment - EarthSense reports 80 TerraSentia robots deployed

    EarthSense had deployed 80 TerraSentia robots by July 2020 and intended to produce 100 before year-end. Corteva Agriscience used TerraSentia in research and development to collect plant-trait data for crop-product development. The robots used computer vision and machine learning for under-canopy measurements including vigor, ear height, soybean pods, biomass and crop stress.

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  • 2020-04-13 - Award - EarthSense wins NSF Phase II award for TerraSentia robotics

    The NSF Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer award followed EarthSense successful Phase I feasibility project. EarthSense and the University of Illinois planned further development of robotics, autonomy and edge analytics for large-scale TerraSentia deployment. The two-year grant supported final product development and global deployment after TerraSentia pilots in the United States, Brazil, Chile, Australia, France and India.

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  • 2019-06-01 - Funding - EarthSense raises seed funding for TerraSentia

    EarthSense closed a USD 1 million SAFE seed round led by Innova Memphis, with Illinois Ventures, Fox Ventures and The Syndicate Fund participating. TerraSentia was designed to collect under-canopy plant-trait data for crop breeders at lower cost than conventional field-phenotyping systems. The capital supported technical hiring, TerraSentia platform maturation and expansion beyond the agricultural research and development market.

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Context

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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.
  • Crop-level perception - Capability - Profile QA added approved context tag matching company robotics exposure.
  • Field agriculture robotics workflow - Workflow - Profile QA added approved context tag matching company robotics exposure.