FarmTractor-pulled AI weeder

Vulcan

Name: Vulcan
Brand: FarmWise (owned by Taylor Farms since 2025)

by FarmWise (owned by Taylor Farms since 2025)

Vulcan is a weeding machine pulled behind a tractor. It uses cameras and artificial intelligence to find weeds among vegetable crops and remove them mechanically. AgFunderNews, 4 Apr 2025

Stage 4 of 5

Paying customers

Which rule placed it

Evidence: Independently reported
Human help: Not disclosed
Last milestone: 4 April 2025

01Can I get it?

Yes, in places

Where it works today: Sold to vegetable growers through the dealer RDO Equipment from 2024; the salad grower Taylor Farms took over the business in 2025. The Robot Report, 12 Sept 2024
Published price: No published price in our sources.
Human help: Vulcan is pulled behind an ordinary tractor rather than driving itself. Farm Progress, 18 Oct 2023

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.

4 April 2025
Funding
Taylor Farms bought FarmWise and said it would move the business over so Vulcan customers kept getting service.
AgFunderNews, 4 Apr 2025Company-reported
20 March 2025
Setback
FarmWise said it would wind down by 1 April 2025 because it could not become profitable with the money it had raised.
Future Farming, 20 Mar 2025Company-reported
12 Sept 2024
On sale · sets the stage
FarmWise signed an exclusive deal for the dealer RDO Equipment to sell and deliver Vulcan to more growers.
The Robot Report, 12 Sept 2024Company-reported
12 Sept 2024
Paying customers · sets the stage
Taylor Farms said it had weeded more than 2,100 acres with Vulcan that season.
The Robot Report, 12 Sept 2024
18 Oct 2023
Unveiled
FarmWise showed Vulcan, a tractor-pulled weeder for lettuce and cabbage-family crops, at a farm robot event in Salinas, California.
Farm Progress, 18 Oct 2023Company-reported
18 Oct 2023
Update
FarmWise said its older self-driving Titan robot would be dropped in favour of the pulled machines.
Farm Progress, 18 Oct 2023Company-reported
2 June 2022
Paying customers · sets the stage
FarmWise sold weeding by its earlier Titan robot as a service, charging per acre, in California and Arizona.
The Robot Report, 2 June 2022Company-reported
2 June 2022
Funding
FarmWise raised $45 million. The salad grower Taylor Farms, already a customer, joined as an investor.
The Robot Report, 2 June 2022

03Safety 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: FarmWise signed an exclusive deal for the dealer RDO Equipment to sell and deliver Vulcan to more growers (12 Sept 2024); Taylor Farms said it had weeded more than 2,100 acres with Vulcan that season (12 Sept 2024).
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 2026 report on how many Vulcan machines are working, or whether Taylor Farms still sells Vulcan to other growers.

Sources

Cite this page

Robotics Verdict. “Vulcan (FarmWise (owned by Taylor Farms since 2025)): how far has it got?” roboticsverdict.com/robots/farmwise. Checked 19 October 2026.