FarmSelf-driving farm cart

Burro

Name: Burro
Brand: Burro (formerly Augean Robotics)

Burro makes small self-driving carts that work alongside farm workers, moving produce and plants around nurseries, vineyards and farms. Technical.ly, 9 Jan 2024

Stage 4 of 5

Paying customers

Which rule placed it

Evidence: Independently reported
Human help: Not disclosed
Last milestone: 1 Oct 2025

01Can I get it?

Yes, in places

Where it works today: Mostly US farms and nurseries, plus some customers in Australia and New Zealand. TechCrunch, 9 Jan 2024
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.

1 Oct 2025
Paying customers · sets the stage
Petitti Family Farms in Lake County, Ohio, planned to grow its Burro Grande fleet from 10 to 25 robots by the end of 2025.
Perishable News, 1 Oct 2025Company-reported
2025
Paying customers · sets the stage
Petitti Family Farms put 10 Burro Grande robots to work on two farms in the first half of 2025, through the farm-labor firm AdeptAg.
Greenhouse Grower, 2025
9 Jan 2024
Funding
Burro raised a $24 million Series B round.
TechCrunch, 9 Jan 2024Company-reported
9 Jan 2024
Paying customers · sets the stage
Burro said about 300 of its robots were working in fields and nurseries.
TechCrunch, 9 Jan 2024Company-reported
9 Jan 2024
Pre-orders
Burro opened orders for the Burro Grande, a bigger model that can carry up to 1,500 pounds.
TechCrunch, 9 Jan 2024Company-reported
28 Sept 2021
Funding
Burro raised $10.9 million, led by S2G Ventures and Toyota Ventures.
TechCrunch, 28 Sept 2021Company-reported
28 Sept 2021
Paying customers · sets the stage
Burro had about 90 robots working in fields, including moving table grapes.
TechCrunch, 28 Sept 2021Company-reported

03Promised vs delivered

What the maker said, and when

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

Said9 Jan 2024
About 800 robots in operation by end of 2024
Burro's CEO hoped about 800 robots would be working by the end of 2024. Technical.ly, 9 Jan 2024
Still pending
No source we opened gave a later robot count.

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.

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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.
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Paying customersThis robot
Delivered to customers who pay for it, beyond a trial, or a paid service the public can use.
Placed by: Petitti Family Farms in Lake County, Ohio, planned to grow its Burro Grande fleet from 10 to 25 robots by the end of 2025 (1 Oct 2025); Petitti Family Farms put 10 Burro Grande robots to work on two farms in the first half of 2025, through the farm-labor firm AdeptAg (2025).
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. We found no fleet count after January 2024, and no price.

Sources

Cite this page

Robotics Verdict. “Burro (Burro (formerly Augean Robotics)): how far has it got?” roboticsverdict.com/robots/burro. Checked 19 October 2026.