Burro is scaling harvest-assist robots into an outdoor labor fleet

Petitti Family Farms used ten Burro robots at Ridge Manor in September 2025 and secured 15 more for deployment by year-end, bringing its planned fleet to 25. Petitti operates more than 4,000 acres of field and container production in Lake County, Ohio. Source

At its January 2024 Series B, the company reported more than 300 robots in paid commercial use, more than 75,000 autonomous miles, and 300,000 operating hours. The $24 million Series B was co-led by Catalyst Investors and Translink Capital, with S2G Ventures, Toyota Ventures, and F-Prime Capital among existing investors. Source

Nurseries, vineyards, berries, and permanent crop operations move plants, bins, harvested goods, and tools across large, repetitive routes where labor is scarce and terrain changes through the season. Burro robots follow workers, tow trailers, patrol depots, and move payloads without asking farms to rebuild their sites around fixed automation.

Burro Grande expands the vehicle class into pallet-scale outdoor mobility, carrying a 1,500-pound payload and towing 5,000-pound loads. Burro Operating System V5.0 adds indoor and outdoor LiDAR localization, supporting transitions between greenhouse, yard, and field routes. Nurseries and farms often shift work between covered, paved, packed-earth, and field environments during the same season.

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