Farm
FarmWise showed Vulcan, a tractor-pulled weeder for lettuce and cabbage-family crops, at a farm robot event in Salinas, California.
A dated step forward on the record · Company-reported
What the source says
“This can handle single-line crops or beds with up to eight lines of lettuce and brassica crops.”
What it means
Vulcan, from FarmWise (owned by Taylor Farms since 2025), is at stage 4 of 5 on our ladder: paying customers. Its stage is set by other milestones on its record; this one adds to the history. This line rests on the company's own announcement; no regulator, customer or independent report confirms it in our sources yet.
Human help: The maker hasn't said whether people help it remotely.
More on Vulcan
- Taylor Farms bought FarmWise and said it would move the business over so Vulcan customers kept getting service.
- FarmWise said it would wind down by 1 April 2025 because it could not become profitable with the money it had raised.
- FarmWise signed an exclusive deal for the dealer RDO Equipment to sell and deliver Vulcan to more growers.
- Taylor Farms said it had weeded more than 2,100 acres with Vulcan that season.
- FarmWise said its older self-driving Titan robot would be dropped in favour of the pulled machines.
- FarmWise raised $45 million. The salad grower Taylor Farms, already a customer, joined as an investor.