Verified Events
DateTypeCompanyHeadlineSegment
Stueve begins six-site FAST autonomous-terminal rollout
- FAST receives retailer ERP orders, directs an autonomous loader to the correct bin and coordinates scoop quantities with blending and conveyor equipment.
- LiDAR-based scanning measures bin inventory to approximately 1% accuracy and feeds volume data to an online portal and API.
- The rollout follows an August 2026 working-prototype demonstration, with additional agricultural retail sites planned during 2027.
Hatake Hotoke expands Mizunigol rice-field weeding robot to 42 prefectures
- Mizunigol is a GPS-equipped autonomous paddy-field weeding robot.
- The remaining five prefectures are Osaka, Kagawa, Kochi, Nagasaki and Miyazaki.
- The company frames the expansion as growing demand from larger rice farms.
Sabanto and Verdant integrated autonomous tractor workflow enters commercial use
- Sabanto’s Autonomy System and Verdant’s SharpShooter communicate directly over CAN bus, combining tractor navigation with plant-level application decisions.
- SharpShooter uses Aim & Apply technology to identify individual plants and weeds and direct inputs only where needed, while the tractor adjusts speed and implement height autonomously.
- The integrated workflow is already operating in commercial sod production at Bethel Farms and is designed to run extended field operations without an operator in the cab.
Westburg Greenhouse adopts Four Growers GR-200 harvest robots
- The FANUC case study names Westburg Greenhouse and describes operational harvesting with GR-200 robots.
- The event adds deployment evidence beyond Four Growers' funding row.
- The deployment places The company's technology into agricultural, food-production or outdoor automation workflows beyond a lab-only setting.
Niqo RoboWeeder deployed for early-stage weeding and thinning
- • Niqo Robotics launched its precision weeding robot, the RoboWeeder, at FIRA USA 2025 on October 21, 2025.
- • The RoboWeeder performs high-speed spot-spray weeding at up to 4.5 miles per hour, utilizing Niqo's proprietary AI camera system for real...
- • It is optimized for specialty crops and can be retrofitted to any tractor, offering a return on investment in under two seasons.
Vitirover deploys four mowing robots at Château Barrabaque
- The site uses two charging stations, including one solar-powered station, to support continued work across the parcels.
- The robots maintain grass height without herbicides or heavy-tractor soil compaction while operating around the vineyard's existing rows and obstacles.
Burro expands Petitti Grande 15 fleet from 10 to 25 robots
- The expansion adds a named customer and fleet count to Burro's outdoor deployment record.
- Grande 15 robots support material movement in Petitti Family Farms operations.
- The deployment places Burro's technology into agricultural, food-production or outdoor automation workflows beyond a lab-only setting.
Round Pond Estate deploys Budbreak's Emma in Napa vineyard
- Round Pond Estate said Emma was operating in its Rutherford vineyard
- Round Pond described Emma as a vineyard robot designed by Budbreak
- The deployment was presented as part of Round Pond's vineyard operations and stewardship workflow
AX-1 proves itself across Europe in commercial field use
- Kilter said AX-1 was proving itself in real field conditions across Norway, Sweden, Germany, and the Netherlands.
- The company framed this as evidence of the robot moving beyond early launch into broader European farm use.
- This is best treated as trial-stage deployment across multiple markets rather than a single named customer rollout.
Tensorfield runs commercial field trials with major produce grower
- Trials ran in multiple growing regions on the U.S. West Coast.
- A major fresh-produce grower hosted the commercial evaluations.
- The programme measured weed-control performance, crop protection and operating economics in production fields.
Smart Cultivator passes 60,000 commercial acres
- Smart Cultivators were operating across three continents.
- Commercial work covered weeding, cultivation and plant-level scanning.
- The milestone came from production farms rather than pilot-only operation.
Aigen deploys Element gen2 robot crews in Bowles cotton fields
- The deployment put Element gen2 robots to work in Bowles Farming cotton fields for the 2025 growing season.
- Element gen2 expanded Aigen support to cotton, soy and sugar beet fields with upgraded solar power, AI compute and depth sensing.
Greenfield robot-weeded sweet corn ships to Whole Foods
- Greenfield's site highlights commercial crop output from robot-weeded sweet corn that shipped to Whole Foods.
- The reference is useful as evidence of real farm deployment and market-facing produce flow rather than a closed test environment.
- This is best treated as trial-stage or early commercial deployment because the public evidence is outcome-based but not tied to a fully detailed rollout announcement.
HarvestX announces first commercial implementation of its automated strawberry cultivation solution at Hamamatsu Farm
- HarvestX announced that Shunkado would implement HarvestX as the world's first commercial application at Hamamatsu Farm.
- The company said the pilot plant had been established in May 2024 with support from Hamamatsu City and Hamamatsu Iwata Shinkin Bank.
- HarvestX framed the site as a foothold for sales expansion to plant factories struggling with strawberry production and companies entering the category.
Floating Robotics completes first paid Meier Gemüse pilot
- The 2024 engagement was Floating Robotics' first paid pilot.
- The pilot returned the system to Meier Gemüse after the earlier prototype trial.
- The commercial engagement advanced harvesting and de-leafing automation toward a robot-as-a-service model.
Floating Robotics demonstrates autonomous greenhouse operations at Beerstecher
- The robot was undergoing testing at Beerstecher AG by 18 December 2023.
- The system used an integrated camera and onboard computer to recognise plants and direct its robotic arm.
- The pilot covered repetitive greenhouse tasks including harvesting, de-leafing and boxing vegetables.
ETH reports Floating Robotics first Meier Gemüse greenhouse pilot
- The first prototype operated at Meier Gemüse during the 2022 growing season.
- The robot harvested and de-leafed tomato plants while fitting existing greenhouse carts.
- The completed pilot preceded a planned second site trial at Beerstecher.
XAG P100 expands commercial farm use in Vietnam
- The P100 was used for spraying, spreading and other crop-production workflows.
- The deployment evidence spans multiple farms rather than one named customer site.
- Vietnam is retained as operating geography and is not modeled as a company endpoint.
Tevel partners with HMC Farms to pilot autonomous fruit harvesting in California
- 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.
Tevel begins fully automated robotic harvesting in Europe
- 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.
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.
FarmWise operates Titan weeders in Salinas Valley
- Eight FarmWise Titan weed-cutting robots operated commercially on farms in California’s Salinas Valley.
- FarmWise offered Titan as a service charged by the acre.
- The deployment put autonomous weeding robots into commercial specialty-crop field operations.
Harvest Automation reaches 29 nursery and greenhouse customers
- Most customers began with fleets of four robots priced at about USD 30,000 per unit.
- The systems automated plant-spacing work that represented a significant share of grower labour costs.
- The customer base demonstrated commercial use of Harvest's human-compatible mobile robots beyond prototype field trials.