Burro · working robot
Burro
A small collaborative cart that follows pickers or drives learned routes to ferry produce to packing stations.
- Price
- $9,000Cheaper than 40%
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- 204 kgCarries more than 52%
- Speed
- 8.0 km/hFaster than 84%
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
Burro is on the market today.
Real-world use
About 90 robots in table-grape fields in 2021.
Maker
BurroCompany · founded 2017 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States$24M Series B (Jan 2024) led by Catalyst Investors and Translink Capital; $11M Series A (2021)
How it stacks up
Against other working & field robots that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Burro is faster than 84% of the 86 other working & field robots that publish a speed. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Burro carries more than 52% of the 84 other working & field robots that publish a payload. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Burro costs less than 40% of the 20 other working & field robots that publish a price. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, weight, joints, battery.
Public attention
How much public attention Burro gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 2 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
- about 800 units or vehicles reported by the maker or press (may be a company-wide total)
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-13; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- How it runs
- Fully autonomous. It shuttles produce along learned routes by itself and can also follow a worker; staff load it and send it off.
- Actuators & motors
- Electric drive; original two-wheel model carried 300 lb and four-wheel model 450 lb (2018); current Burro carries 500 lb and tows 2,000 lb; Burro Grande (2024) carries 1,500 lb and tows 5,000 lb
- Sensors & vision
- On-board cameras with computer vision and high-precision GPS
- Battery & power
- Sealed lead-acid batteries in 2018, up to about 15 miles per charge at up to 5 mph
- AI & software
- Locks onto and follows a worker without a beacon; learns a route by following and then repeats it autonomously
Lineage
Every Burro (formerly Augean Robotics) machine in order.
Watch Burro
Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- $9,000$9,000-10,000 per unit in 2018 (The Spoon); 2026 listings $25,000-85,000 (Future Farming)
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Built
- Company targeted 800 vehicles in operation by end of 2024
- Where it is sold or used
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Customers and pilots
- Nurseries, vineyards and farms (table-grape growers in 2021)
News
The latest 2, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Burro raises $24 million and launches Burro Grande
Burro closed a $24 million Series B led by Catalyst Investors and Translink Capital and launched the larger Burro Grande.
Ben Franklin Technology Partners - Augean Robotics' Burro follows farm workers
The Spoon described the $9,000-10,000 Burro cart that follows pickers or repeats learned routes.
The Spoon
Sources
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