FarmStrawberry-picking robot
Agrobot strawberry harvester
by Agrobot
Agrobot, a Spanish company, builds strawberry harvesters with many robot arms, each with its own camera, that pick ripe berries in the field. CNBC, 23 Aug 2018
- Evidence
- Independently reported
- Human help
- Not disclosed
- Last milestone
- 26 July 2019
01Can I get it?
Only through a trial
- Where it works today
- Not stated in our sources.
- 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.
Pilot · sets the stage
Future Farming, 26 July 2019Company-reported
03Promised vs delivered
What the maker said, and when
Dated targets the maker set in public, against what has happened since.
- Said13 Dec 2019
Commercial use in late 2020
Agrobot's chief executive said he expected the harvester to go into commercial use in late 2020, if field trials went well. Farm Automation Today, 13 Dec 2019
Still pendingWe found no independent report confirming commercial use since then.
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.
On video
What it looks like, at stage 3
Videos from the maker show the robot at its best. The stage comes from the dated record above, not from what a video shows.
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Agrobot BugVacHow 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 customers
Delivered to customers who pay for it, beyond a trial, or a paid service the public can use.
- 3
PilotThis robot
Working with a named customer in a real setting, as a trial.
Placed by: Future Farming reported Agrobot robots harvesting strawberries in California, on a machine with 30 robot arms (26 July 2019); Driscoll's used an Agrobot harvester in one of its berry fields in Oxnard, California (23 Aug 2018).
- 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. We found no news since 2019 on Agrobot's sales or customers. Its website (2026) shows a harvester named Goyo and lists Badajoz, Spain and Oxnard, California, but gives no dates, prices or customers.
Sources
- 01CNBC, 23 Aug 2018
- 02Future Farming, 26 July 2019
- 03AgFunderNews, 7 Feb 2018
- 04Fruit Growers News, Dec 2012
- 05Farm Automation Today, 13 Dec 2019
Cite this page
Robotics Verdict. “Agrobot strawberry harvester (Agrobot): how far has it got?” roboticsverdict.com/robots/agrobot. Checked 19 October 2026.
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