Verified Events
DateTypeCompanyHeadlineSegment
Aurova selected for ARM Hub Propel-AIR programme
- The programme combines an Australian accelerator sprint with a potential MassRobotics residency in Boston.
- Participants receive support from robotics, AI, venture and intellectual-property specialists.
- Aurova was selected for its autonomous vegetation-management systems.
Atomatika receives Compasso d'Oro ADI honourable mention
- Atomatika is an autonomous tracked multi-tool robot developed for vineyards and orchards.
- The platform is designed to reuse conventional implements through a three-point hitch and power take-off connection.
- Operators can assign missions and monitor work through the MyAgricobots mobile application.
Fieldwork Robotics receives ReFED Catalytic Grant Fund support
- ReFED announced support for Fieldwork Robotics through its Catalytic Grant Fund.
- The funding supports Fieldwork Robotics' food-waste and labor-shortage focused harvesting automation work.
- This is grant-style funding, not a procurement award or commercial order.
Greenfield Robotics receives North Dakota Autonomous Agriculture Grant Program support
- Greenfield Robotics received support through North Dakota's Autonomous Agriculture Grant Program.
- The support is grant-style funding rather than a procurement contract or recognition award.
- The event should stay in the funding lane with grant context carried in metadata.
ABZ Innovation L50 wins the FRUIT LOGISTICA Innovation Award 2026 in Technology
- ABZ announced that the L50 won the FRUIT LOGISTICA Innovation Award 2026 in the Technology category.
- The company describes the L50 as Europe's first 50-liter, LiDAR-based, EU-designed and EU-manufactured agricultural spraying drone.
- This is the strongest award milestone tied to the L50.
ABZ Innovation C10 wins a special prize at AGROmashEXPO 2026
- ABZ announced that the C10 received the Special Prize in Domestic Product Development at AGROmashEXPO 2026.
- The award is tied specifically to the C10 industrial cleaning drone rather than the company as a whole.
- This is a straightforward product-award milestone.
Kilter wins Netherlands innovation award for AX-1
- Kilter announced that AX-1 received an innovation award in the Netherlands.
- The award was tied to a Dutch industry event focused on mechanisation and innovation in horticulture and vegetable production.
- The recognition added market validation for AX-1 in a core greenhouse and specialty-crop geography.
ABZ Innovation C10 receives EU C5 certification
- ABZ announced that the C10 achieved EU C5 certification as a tethered unmanned aircraft.
- The company says the certification confirms compliance with the relevant EU product and conformity requirements for this class.
- This is a clean regulatory/certification event for the C10.
ABZ Innovation drones become officially Remote ID compliant in the United States
- ABZ announced that its L30 agricultural spraying drone and C10 industrial cleaning drone had been accepted as Remote ID compliant UAS in the U.S.
- The update gives ABZ a clearer compliance footing for operating those systems in American airspace under current FAA Remote ID rules.
- This is best logged as a certification/compliance milestone rather than a product launch.
Budbreak receives F3 Innovate grant award
- Budbreak received an F3 Innovate grant award as one of five selected startups.
- The programme awarded a combined $200,000 to support agricultural technology development.
Deep Forestry wins CMPC Smart Forest Solutions Challenge
- Foresight Canada described Deep Forestry's approach as autonomous drones and AI for tree-level forest analysis.
- The win gave Deep Forestry an opportunity to co-create a pilot proposal with CMPC.
- The challenge focused on water management and sustainable forest monitoring for global plantations.
PacifiCan awards 4AG Robotics C$2.5 million scale-up funding
- The C$2.5 million contribution came through PacifiCan's Business Scale-Up and Productivity program.
- The project supports higher manufacturing capacity and global sales of the harvesting system.
- 4AG's robots use artificial intelligence to pick, trim and package mushrooms while reducing production costs.
Red Barn Robotics joins Y Combinator Winter 2025 batch
- Red Barn Robotics announced its acceptance into Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch.
- The company was developing an autonomous robot for precise, lower-cost farm weeding.
- Founders planned to use the accelerator to advance technology supporting farmers.
Business Oregon awards Canopii SBIR/STTR matching grant for commercial scaling of fully automated greenhouse farm
- Business Oregon named Canopii as one of the 2024 SBIR/STTR Matching Grant recipients.
- The release says Canopii received the award for commercial scaling of its fully automated greenhouse farm.
- The announcement places Canopii among Oregon companies using matched federal innovation funding to move toward commercialization.
AgXeed wins first TOTYBot award for autonomous farm robotics
- AgXeed won the first TOTYBot award at the Tractor of the Year 2025 ceremony.
- The award recognized the AgXeed AgBot as a dedicated autonomous agricultural robot category winner.
- CLAAS noted that AgXeed machines were already in use around the world.
Floating Robotics joins 2024 MassChallenge Switzerland cohort
- The cohort was announced on 24 May 2024.
- Floating Robotics was one of roughly 100 startups selected from the top 8% of applicants.
- The four-month programme provided mentoring, industry contacts, investor access and zero-equity support.
Smart Farm Robotix takes second at ERF award
- Smart Farm Robotix received second prize at the European Robotics Forum 2024, held March 13-15 in Rimini, Italy.
- The competition evaluated robotics startups through investment pitches presented to a panel of technology and investment experts.
- The published results placed Smart Farm Robotix between first-prize winner Isochronic and third-prize winner KINETIK Space.
Smart Farm Robotix selected for EIC Accelerator
- The European Innovation Council named Smart Farm Robotix among 42 companies selected on February 28, 2024 after its November 2023 cut-off.
- The cohort was chosen from 1,083 full proposals, with 242 companies reaching jury interviews.
- The selected RoboAiWeeder project advances a lightweight solar-powered autonomous weeding robot using AI plant recognition and contact and contactless weed removal.
Fieldwork Robotics wins Innovate UK BerryBot grant to accelerate robot development
- Fieldwork was awarded a government-backed grant for the BerryBot project to accelerate development of its harvesting robots.
- The project was supported by Innovate UK and linked to further development of autonomous harvesting capability.
- This is a grant-funding row, separate from later equity financing.
Innosuisse approves Floating Robotics Start-up Innovation Project
- The Start-up Innovation Project milestone took place in December 2023.
- Floating Robotics AG joined the approved science-based start-up innovation projects.
- The follow-on support enabled a five-person team and preparation for a paid 2024 pilot.
Gebert Rüf Stiftung awards Floating Robotics CHF 150,000 InnoBooster grant
- Project GRS-073/22 was approved on 10 February 2023.
- The CHF 150,000 grant covered a programme running from March 2023 to July 2024.
- The work integrated the robot with industry-standard greenhouse machinery and prepared further commercial pilots.
Tevel is named finalist for the 2022 Atlas Award
- Tevel was selected as a finalist for the 2022 Atlas Award in the food tech category.
- The recognition was tied to its autonomous harvesting solution rather than a new product release or customer deployment.
Floating Robotics wins CHF 10,000 Venture Kick support
- The first-stage win took place in November 2022.
- The Venture Kick award provided CHF 10,000 of support.
- The award followed the project's pivot toward automated harvesting and crop care in tomato greenhouses.
USDA awards TRIC Robotics USD 650,000 agricultural-robotics grant
- The project began on 1 September 2022 under grant 2022-39411-38290 and ran through February 2025.
- TRIC used autonomous multirow robots to test uniform UV-C dosing as a non-chemical alternative for pest and disease control.
- The programme evaluated commercial viability, treatment coverage and crop response in working strawberry environments.
MetoMotion wins GreenTech Robot Challenge
- The GRoW robotic worker won the GreenTech Robot Challenge in Amsterdam.
- The competition assessed robotics addressing horticultural labour and productivity constraints.
- Strategic partner Ridder highlighted the award as validation of automated tomato harvesting.
Rowbot secures NSF Phase I award for nitrogen robotics
- Rowbot Systems secured a National Science Foundation Phase I SBIR award for in-season nitrogen application.
- The award supported combining field work with real-time data analysis.
- The project targeted better in-season nitrogen decisions for row-crop agriculture.
Innosuisse backs Floating Robotics innovation project
- The Innovation Project milestone took place in March 2021.
- The Innosuisse instrument provided a major development boost.
- The programme supported expansion of the greenhouse-robot effort beyond its proof-of-concept phase.
Floating Robotics receives proof-of-concept grant for field-ready robot
- The proof-of-concept grant arrived in December 2020.
- The support extended the project's work at ETH Zurich into 2021.
- Its objective was to turn the research platform into a field-ready robot.
Antobot receives Eastern Agri-Tech grant
- Antobot received more than GBP40,000 from the Eastern Agri-Tech Growth Initiative for agricultural robot prototypes.
- The grant supported two mobile agriculture robot prototypes.
- The award backed Antobot control hardware and software for intelligent mobile robots in agriculture.
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.
SNF Spark grant moves Floating Robotics into ETH Zurich robotics lab
- The grant gave the project a base inside ETH Zurich's Robotic Systems Lab.
- The Spark milestone took place in February 2020.
- The move established the research setting for subsequent greenhouse-robot development.