Burro builds autonomous field robots used in agriculture to transport payloads and tow equipment. Its product line includes the People-scale Burro (carries 500 lbs, tows up to 2,000 lbs) and the new Pallet-scale Burro Grande (carries 1,500 lbs, tows up to 5,000 lbs) with 3D LIDAR and a Lidar-based SLAM algorithm for GPS-denied navigation. The company reports about 300 systems operating in fields and nurseries—primarily in the U.S., with select clients in Australia and New Zealand—and more than 300,000 hours in the field and roughly 75,000 miles covered autonomously. Burro intends to use its latest funding to scale operations by increasing production and shipping cadence and to expand product and engineering teams. Management also plans to grow sales, go-to-market, and customer success functions, with an emphasis on growing revenue faster than costs and maintaining continuous production/shipping. Founded in 2017 and based in Philadelphia, the Burro Grande is available to order and is set to start shipping later this quarter. Burro, formerly Augean Robotics and based in Philadelphia, PA, builds plug-and-play autonomous people-scale robots for the agriculture industry. Led by CEO Charlie Andersen, the company’s robots use a patent-pending Pop Up Autonomy™ approach with computer vision and AI to learn on the go and navigate autonomously without centralized control or heavy infrastructure. Burros are designed to work out of the box so everyone in a working environment can become an operator and can carry various payloads. Today the company operates 90 robots in table grape fields, covering 100–300 miles a day autonomously, six days a week. Burro intends to use new funding to increase headcount, expand product capabilities, and extend its mobility autonomy into nursery and berry markets. The company raised $10.9M in a Series A to support these plans.

Total raised

$35M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Jan 2024