Burro
The Burro follows pickers, carrying loads to the headland so harvest crews never stop. Outside of harvest, Burro doubles as a mobility platform for scouting, monitoring, and third-party attachments built on Burro’s open API.
Burro Verde par Burro
Burro
- Date de création : 2017
- Contact commercial : Burro Sales (sales@burro.ai)
- Site internet : https://burro.ai
United States of America
Burro develops autonomous robots capable of performing a range of agricultural tasks such as towing, load carrying, mowing, spraying, and monitoring. The company primarily targets specialty crop operations, particularly in fruit, vegetable, and industrial sectors, seeking a versatile, quickly deployable multi-task platform adaptable to a wide range of field activities.
Burro Verde par Burro
Types de cultures
Légumes
Baies
Pépinières
Etapes de culture
Harvesting
Vue d'ensemble technologique
- Dernière révision : 03/07/2026
- Date de sortie commerciale : July 2023
- Application : The Burro Verde autonomously moves trolleys and trailers through greenhouses and field sites, hands-free.
Vue d'ensemble de commercialisation
- Niveau de préparation technologique : 10: Introduction sur le marché - Pleine opération commerciale
- Unité en service - Global : 51 to 100
- Modèle économique : Direct sales / Distributor network / RaaS (Robot as a service) / Leasing
- Prix : <$50k
- Coûts de fonctionnement : BOSS autonomy subscription (annual). Covers warranty, OTA software / autonomy updates, and live fleet visibility.
Couverture du marché, distributeurs et fournisseurs de services
- Pays ou marchés adressés :
Current deployments: Australia, New Zealand, North America (United States, Canada, Mexico), South America (Peru, Chile, Brazil, Colombia) and Asia (Japan).
Performance & Impact Économique
- ROI estimé :
Typical payback inside one to two years for towing-heavy greenhouse operations and berry harvest assist. Primary driver is replacing the labour and capital tied up in manual tuggers, gators, golf carts and pushed carts — a single Verde can run the same route hundreds of times a day without operator fatigue. Burro’s ROI calculator (burro.ai/calculator) models the tow scenarios that apply to our product line.
- Économies de produits phytosanitaires :
N/A
- Amélioration du rendement :
Indirect — pickers and greenhouse workers spend more time on the value-adding work (picking, pruning, training, scouting) and less time walking lugs and pushing trolleys. In berry operations, keeping pickers in the row instead of carrying loads to the headland protects daily harvest throughput, especially during peak weeks.
Caractéristiques techniques
- Type de solution : Plateforme/porteur autonome
- Source d'énergie : Electric — 2.4 kWh / 24 V battery system, expandable for extended range
- Puissance de tracteur requise : N/A — self-propelled
- Taille :
- Metric: 148.1 x 69.8 x 137.2 cm
- Imperial: 58.3 x 27.5 x 54 inches
- Poids net : 182 kg (402 lb)
- Taille d'exploitation min. (en hectares) : 0.5 ha (1.24 acres)
- Débit de Chantier : Deck: up to 226 kg (500 lb) — Tow: up to 907 kg (2,000 lb) — Range: 16 km (10 miles/charge)
- Vitesse de travail maximale : 6.5 km/h (4.04 mph)
- Entraxe : Standard: 69 cm (27") — XL: 91 cm (36")
- Puissance : 5.2 HP Peak (3.88 kW)
Fonctionnalités et technologies
- Fonctionnalité principale : Verde is Burro’s purpose-built robot for the jobs that cross the greenhouse threshold — towing trolleys and carts indoors, and carrying or towing loads outdoors in berry and protected-cropping operations. Verde uses Burro’s patented Pop-up Autonomy™ to follow workers hands-free for harvest assist (no wearable required), or run pre-mapped routes for repeatable routes. 3D LiDAR plus a 12-camera stereo system let Verde navigate indoor spaces where GPS is unavailable, then transition seamlessly outdoors using high-precision RTK / NTRIP-compatible GPS. Fleet management, site mapping, and over-the-air software updates are delivered through BOSS, Burro’s multifunction robot operating system. One operator can run multiple Burros at once. 700+ Burros deployed globally.
- Logiciel : 12-camera stereo vision system (4 × stereo cameras, person-following and obstacle detection); 3D LiDAR (indoor mapping and obstacle avoidance); RTK GPS (NTRIP-compatible) for outdoor autonomous navigation; IMU; 4G LTE cellular modem; WiFi; 4 × right-angle drive brushed motors; all-onboard CPU/GPU compute (32 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD); zero-ingress forced-air cooling; front and rear bumper bars / safety edges; LED strobe and area lighting; 7" (18 cm) 1000-nit LCD touch monitor; BOSS cloud platform for fleet management, OTA software / autonomy updates, and site mapping.
- Connectivité : Requires 4G LTE cellular for BOSS fleet management (remote monitoring, route programming, OTA updates). Indoor operation uses onboard 3D LiDAR-generated maps for GPS-denied environments. Outdoor operation uses RTK GPS (NTRIP-compatible — no dedicated base station needed) integrated via BOSS.
- Outils compatibles : Open flat-deck (27" × 47.8" / 69 × 121 cm slatted steel tray) for harvest lugs, picking trays, and packing crates, up to 500 lbs (226 kg). Standard hitch tows greenhouse trolleys, tugger trains, and trailers up to 2,000 lbs (907 kg). Burro’s open API allows third parties to build custom attachments and integrations on the platform.
Plan de développement
- Prochaine phase de développement : Verde is a production product, generally available, with ~50 units in commercial use as part of a 700+ Burro fleet worldwide. The roadmap is continuous: OTA software and autonomy updates delivered through BOSS keep growing the indoor / outdoor capability set.
Ressources complémentaires
Burro Verde by Burro
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