FarmFruit-picking robot

Strawberry and apple harvesting robots

Name: Strawberry and apple harvesting robots
Brand: Advanced Farm Technologies (assets bought by CNH in 2025)

by Advanced Farm Technologies (assets bought by CNH in 2025)

Advanced Farm, a startup from Davis, California, designed robot harvesters for strawberries and later apples. It ran short of money in 2025, and farm-machinery maker CNH agreed to buy its technology. The Packer, 3 Oct 2023

EndedAdvanced Farm closed for lack of funding in 2025, and CNH agreed to buy its assets and intellectual property (reported April 2025). The stage below shows how far it got.

Stage 4 of 5

Paying customers

Which rule placed it

Evidence: Company-reported only
Human help: Not disclosed
Last milestone: 2 April 2025

01Can I get it?

Yes, in places

Where it works today: No longer run by Advanced Farm. CNH, which bought the technology in 2025, plans to keep developing it for sale, according to The Robot Report's sources. The Robot Report, 2 Apr 2025
Published price: No published price in our sources.
Human help: The maker hasn't said whether people help it remotely.

02Track record

What has actually happened

Every milestone is dated and links to the page it comes from. Lines marked company-reported rest on the maker's own word.

2 April 2025
Funding
CNH agreed to buy Advanced Farm's assets and intellectual property; most of the technical team was to join CNH.
The Robot Report, 2 Apr 2025Company-reported
2025
Setback
Advanced Farm closed for lack of funding, laid off its team and cancelled its 2025 apple season in Washington.
Good Fruit Grower, spring 2025
2024
Pilot
For a third year the apple robot was tried in Washington orchards, with two machines working for eight orchard companies, including Columbia Fruit Packers.
Good Fruit Grower, autumn 2024
3 Oct 2023
Funding
CNH, the farm-machinery maker, took a minority stake in Advanced Farm.
The Packer, 3 Oct 2023Company-reported
2022
Update
After its first strawberry machine, the company brought out an apple harvester for orchards in Washington state.
The Packer, 3 Oct 2023Company-reported
21 Sept 2021
Funding
It raised $25 million more, saying the money would help adapt its robot to picking apples.
The Robot Report, 21 Sept 2021Company-reported
21 Sept 2021
Pilot
Advanced Farm said it had worked with large strawberry growers including GoodFarms, Oppy and Naturipe.
The Robot Report, 21 Sept 2021Company-reported
28 Aug 2019
Funding
The company raised $7.5 million in Series A funding, led by Yamaha's venture arm.
The Robot Report, 28 Aug 2019Company-reported
2019
On sale · sets the stage
Advanced Farm said it had started selling its T-6 strawberry-picking robot in 2019, and that it was in use in California.
The Robot Report, 28 Aug 2019Company-reported

03Promised vs delivered

What the maker said, and when

Dated targets the maker set in public, against what has happened since.

Said18 Feb 2025
Work across many more acres in 2025
Advanced Farm's CEO said the company was moving to work with growers across many more acres in 2025. AndNowUKnow, 18 Feb 2025
Missed
The company closed in spring 2025 and cancelled its 2025 Washington harvest season.

04Safety and incidents

What has gone wrong

No crashes, recalls or regulator reports in our sources. That is not proof none happened; we add them when a regulator or trusted outlet reports one.

How we placed it

The rule, not an opinion

Stages are worked out by published rules from the dated milestones above. We never rate robots, and no maker can pay to change a stage.

5
Regulator-cleared or mass market
A regulator has cleared it where approval applies: FDA clearance or approval for a medical robot, a permit to run with no one aboard for a self-driving vehicle, or an FAA approval for routine drone flights. Or: Widely sold: sales in the hundreds of thousands, or a product category you can buy in ordinary shops.
4
Paying customersThis robot
Delivered to customers who pay for it, beyond a trial, or a paid service the public can use.
Placed by: Advanced Farm said it had started selling its T-6 strawberry-picking robot in 2019, and that it was in use in California (2019).
3
Pilot
Working with a named customer in a real setting, as a trial.
2
Pre-orders
Orders, reservations or deposits taken, with nothing delivered yet.
1
Demo only
Shown in videos, staged events or a factory, with no units working for customers.

What we couldn't confirm. Good Fruit Grower's autumn 2024 story gave a projected price of about $300,000 per apple machine and a goal of commercial use by 2027; neither Good Fruit story shows a printed date. We found nothing on what CNH has done with the technology since.

Sources

Cite this page

Robotics Verdict. “Strawberry and apple harvesting robots (Advanced Farm Technologies (assets bought by CNH in 2025)): how far has it got?” roboticsverdict.com/robots/advanced-farm. Checked 19 October 2026.