AgriBot Ltd

What we do

AgriBot builds autonomous field robots for selective harvesting of soft fruit and brassicas. Each machine uses stereo vision and a learned ripeness model to decide, plant by plant, what is ready, and a compliant gripper to pick it without bruising. The robots work in fleets under a single supervisor, run on battery for a full shift, and are designed to operate in the row spacings of existing commercial plantings rather than requiring growers to replant to suit the machine.

Market and customers

Soft fruit and field vegetable growers face a structural labour shortage that has not eased with wage increases, and the crops most affected are the ones where harvest timing determines whether the produce meets specification at all. Growers buy on cost per kilogram harvested against the seasonal labour alternative, which makes the sales conversation refreshingly quantitative. We offer both outright sale and a harvesting-as-a-service model priced per hectare, and most customers start with the latter.

Traction

Fourteen machines have operated across six commercial farms in the UK over two seasons. In the most recent season the fleet harvested 340 tonnes, with a first-pick accuracy of 87% against a human benchmark of 92% and a damage rate below the packhouse rejection threshold. Revenue for the year was £1.1M, predominantly from service contracts. Cost per kilogram is now within 15% of manual harvest at current utilisation and improves with each additional hectare per machine.

Team and investors

The company spun out of Robert Gordon University's robotics group and employs 33 people, with a field operations team that lives on farms through the season — a deliberate choice that has been the main source of engineering feedback. Investors include an agritech venture fund and a strategic investment from a fresh produce group.

Current raise

We are raising £3.5M in a Series A to build 40 further machines for the coming season, extend the crop model to a third crop, and establish an operations base in southern Spain to extend the working season beyond the UK harvest window.