Burro · working robot
Burro Grande
A larger Burro that carries 1,500 lb and tows 5,000 lb.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- 680 kgCarries more than 73%
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
Burro Grande is on the market today.
Real-world use
Nurseries, vineyards and farms, mainly in the US with some customers in Australia and New Zealand; sold through dealers
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 Grande carries more than 73% of the 84 other working & field robots that publish a payload. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, weight, speed, joints, battery, price.
Public attention
How much public attention Burro Grande gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 2 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
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 follows a worker or repeats routes it has been taught to shuttle heavy loads around farms with no driver.
- Sensors & vision
- 3D lidar for safety and navigation (Burro says every Grande ships with it)
- AI & software
- Burro Operating System v5.0 with lidar-based SLAM, which lets it navigate without GPS
- Other details
- Pallet-scale version of the original Burro: carries 1,500 lb (about 680 kg) and tows 5,000 lb, against 500 lb and 2,000 lb for the standard Burro.
Lineage
Every Burro machine in order.
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Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Built
- About 300 Burro systems (all models) were operating in fields and nurseries in January 2024, with a stated aim of about 800 by end of 2024
- Where it is sold or used
- Burro is based in Philadelphia, United States
- Customers and pilots
- Nurseries, vineyards and farms, mainly in the US with some customers in Australia and New Zealand; sold through dealers
News
The latest 2, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Burro hopes for 800 robots in the field
Regional coverage of the Series B said Burro aimed to have about 800 vehicles working by the end of 2024 and was launching the Grande.
Ben Franklin Technology Partners (Technical.ly repost) - Burro raises $24M and launches the Grande
Burro announced a $24 million Series B led by Catalyst Investors and Translink Capital alongside the larger pallet-scale Burro Grande.
TechCrunch
Sources
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