FarmRobot fruit harvesters

Fruit-picking robots

Name: Fruit-picking robots
Brand: Dogtooth, Tevel, FFRobotics, Agrobot, Oishii (Tortuga)

by Dogtooth, Tevel, FFRobotics, Agrobot, Oishii (Tortuga)

Robots that find ripe fruit with cameras and pick it with robot arms or suction. In research tests, machines took 10 to 15 seconds to harvest each fruit, and several startups have closed or been sold. Farming Future Food, 10 Aug 2026

Stage 4 of 5

Paying customers

Which rule placed it

Evidence: Company-reported only
Human help: Not disclosed
Last milestone: 10 Aug 2026

01Can I get it?

Yes, in places

Where it works today: Small fleets on some strawberry farms, for example 16 Dogtooth robots at a Tasmanian berry farm in 2023. Future Farming, 17 Mar 2023
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.

10 Aug 2026
Update
A review of research found fruit-picking robots still cope poorly with real orchards and fields.
Farming Future Food, 10 Aug 2026
14 July 2026
Funding
UK strawberry-picking robot maker Dogtooth raised more than £14 million.
AgNavigator, 14 July 2026Company-reported
14 July 2026
Paying customers · sets the stage
Dogtooth said growers use its robots on commercial farms, naming a recent deployment with Dyson Farming in the UK.
AgNavigator, 14 July 2026Company-reported
24 March 2025
Funding
Indoor strawberry grower Oishii bought the technology of Tortuga AgTech, a strawberry-picking robot maker.
The Packer, 24 Mar 2025Company-reported
2025
Setback
Apple-picking robot maker advanced.farm closed for lack of funding and cancelled its 2025 season in Washington.
Good Fruit Grower, spring 2025
17 March 2023
Pilot
Burlington Berries in Tasmania, Australia, used 16 Dogtooth robots to pick its strawberries.
Future Farming, 17 Mar 2023
July 2021
Setback
Abundant Robotics, a California apple-picking robot startup founded in 2016, shut down.
The Robot Report, 6 July 2021
23 Aug 2018
Pilot
Driscoll's used an Agrobot strawberry harvester in a berry field in Oxnard, California.
CNBC, 23 Aug 2018

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: Dogtooth said growers use its robots on commercial farms, naming a recent deployment with Dyson Farming in the UK (14 July 2026).
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 count of fruit-picking robots in commercial use worldwide. Tevel, which makes flying fruit-picking robots, has its own card.

Sources

Cite this page

Robotics Verdict. “Fruit-picking robots (Dogtooth, Tevel, FFRobotics, Agrobot, Oishii (Tortuga)): how far has it got?” roboticsverdict.com/robots/fruit-picking-robots. Checked 19 October 2026.