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.
Grande 15 by Burro
Burro
- Date of creation : 2017
- Sales contact : Burro Sales (sales@burro.ai)
- Website : 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.
Grande 15 by Burro
Types of crops
Nursery Garden
Vegetables
Berries
Crop Phases
In-crop management | chemical weeding
Technology Overview
- Latest revision : 7/3/2026
- Commercial release date : January, 2024
- Application : The Burro Verde autonomously moves trolleys and trailers through greenhouses and field sites, hands-free.
Commercialisation Overview
- Technology Readiness Level (TRL) : 10: Market introduction - Full commercial operation
- Units in Service - Global : Over 300
- Business model : Direct sales / Distributor network / RaaS (Robot as a service) / Leasing
- Price :
- Ongoing Costs : BOSS autonomy subscription (annual). Covers warranty, OTA software / autonomy updates, and live fleet visibility.
Market Coverage, Distributors and Service Suppliers
- Countries or markets addressed :
Current deployments: Australia, New Zealand, North America (United States, Canada, Mexico), South America (Peru, Chile, Brazil, Colombia) and Asia (Japan).
Performance & Economic Impact
- Estimated ROI :
Typical payback under two years for tow- and haul-heavy operations; varies with operation size and local labour costs. Primary driver is replacing the repetitive manual transport labour that consumes 20–40% of farm and nursery hours. Burro’s ROI calculator (burro.ai/calculator) models tow, mow, spray, and spray+mow scenarios.
Cuts the labour of pushing carts and shuttling trays. One Grande autonomously tows multiple loaded wagons between greenhouse bays, replacing trip after trip of manual transport. Customer feedback from a vegetable seed nursery deployment: “Burro has been working great and implementing it into movement has been smooth. Guys got it down pretty darn fast.”
- Phytosanitary Product Savings :
- Yield Improvement :
Indirect — with towing taken off their plate, crews spend more time on seedling care, picking, scouting, and other higher-value work. Faster bay-to-bay cycle times reduce handling delays and worker fatigue, which protects throughput on the days that count most.
Technical specifications
- Type of solution : Autonomous platform/carrier
- Power source : Electric (10kwh lithium iron phosphate battery system, expandable to 30kwh)
- Required Tractor Power : No need of tractor
- Size :
- Metric: 149.2 x 121.9 x 142.2 cm
- Imperial: 57.7 x 48 x 56 inches
- Net weight : ~490 kg (~1,080 lbs)
- Min Farm Size (In hectares) : 1 ha (2.47 acres)
- Productivity : Deck: up to 454 kg (1,000 lb) — Tow: up to 2,268 kg (5,000 lb) — Range: 24 km (15 miles/charge)
- Maximum operating speed : 7.6 km/h (4.72 mph)
- Wheel spacing : Fixed – 1 m (39.5 inches)
- Horse power : 15HP Peak, 4.9HP Continuous
Functionalities and technologies
- Core Functionality : Burro Grande tackles two of the five most ubiquitous jobs on any site — haul and tow. At vegetable seed nurseries it autonomously tows wagon trains between greenhouse bays; out in the field it uses Burro’s patented Pop-up Autonomy™ to instantly follow workers hands-free (no wearable required) for harvest assist and temporary jobs, or run pre-mapped waypoint routes for repeatable missions. Carries up to 1,000 lbs (454 kg) on its open deck, with a standard 2" (5cm) receiver hitch that tows up to 5,000 lbs (2,268 kg). The same platform extends to the other three jobs through Burro’s attachment ecosystem: Cortador (brush mowing) and Sprayito (precision spot spraying, up to 75% chemical savings), plus patrolling and live fleet visibility through BOSS, Burro’s multifunction robot operating system. One operator can run multiple Burros at once. 700+ Burros deployed globally — 300+ are Grande 15s working in production today.
- Software : Stereo vision cameras (person-following and obstacle detection); 3D LiDAR; GPS/GNSS for autonomous waypoint navigation; IMU; LTE/4G cellular modem; WiFi; four-wheel independent brushless DC drives; onboard AI compute; BOSS cloud platform for fleet management, OTA software/autonomy updates, and site mapping.
- Connectivity : Requires LTE/4G cellular for BOSS fleet management (remote monitoring, waypoint programming, OTA updates). No dedicated base station needed. High-Precision GPS integrated via BOSS for autonomous navigation and mapping.
- Compatible Tools : Open flat-deck (1.2 m × 1.0 m usable) for farm bins, seedling trays, harvest lugs, crates and spray tanks, up to 1,000 lbs (454 kg). Standard 2" (5cm) receiver hitch tows trailers and equipment up to 5,000 lbs (2,268 kg) on hard, flat surfaces. Burro attachment ecosystem: Cortador brush-mower attachment (mowing) and Sprayito precision spot sprayer (spot-spray with up to 75% chemical savings). Third-party attachments can attach and communicate via our open APIs.
Development Roadmap
- Next phase : Grande 15 is a production product, generally available, with 300+ 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 capability and breadth of jobs each robot can take on, alongside an expanding ecosystem of Burro attachments (Cortador for mowing, Sprayito for precision spraying).
Additional resources
Grande 15 by Burro
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