Farm
Tevel ran its first commercial trial in an apple orchard in Italy.
A dated step forward on the record · Company-reported
What the source says
“its first commercial field trials in an Italian apple orchard, with particularly promising results”
What it means
Flying Autonomous Robots, from Tevel Aerobotics Technologies, 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 Flying Autonomous Robots
- Chilean fruit company Unifrutti harvested several apple varieties in its orchards using Tevel robots, from March to May.
- Tevel said it was serving growers in Europe and the US, including HMC Farms in California.
- Tevel was named one of the Top-10 New Products at the World Ag Expo farm show.
- Tevel was testing its robots with growers in the western US. Its US manager said they were slower than a human picker.
- Tevel raised $20 million, with Japanese machinery maker Kubota and China's Forbon among the investors.