Burro has been on our radar since early 2020, when the company (then Augean) participated in a TechCrunch Robotics pitch-off. The Philly-based firm has actually been around since 2017, but it’s really the last few years that have seen its agtech offering really take off. Those successes have, of course, coincided with the pandemic and resulting labor crunches that have accelerated much of the agricultural robotics space. Over the last four years, many a startup has grown from early pilots to real-world usage. For Burro, that’s equated to 300 of its robotics systems that are currently operating in fields and nurseries, primarily in the U.S. (along with select clients in Australia and New Zealand). All told, the startup says it has racked up north of 300,000 hours in the field, with 75,000 miles covered autonomously through its commercial clients. That means actually out there on real farms.
Burro has been on our radar since early 2020, when the company (then Augean) participated in a TechCrunch Robotics pitch-off. The Philly-based firm has actually been around since 2017, but it’s really the last few years that have seen its agtech offering really take off. Those successes have, of course, coincided with the pandemic and resulting labor crunches that have accelerated much of the agricultural robotics space. Over the last four years, many a startup has grown from early pilots to real-world usage. For Burro, that’s equated to 300 of its robotics systems that are currently operating in fields and nurseries, primarily in the U.S. (along with select clients in Australia and New Zealand). All told, the startup says it has racked up north of 300,000 hours in the field, with 75,000 miles covered autonomously through its commercial clients. That means actually out there on real farms.