The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies EarthSense: 1 model. 1 source back the record.
CategoryAgricultural robots
Overview
EarthSense develops agricultural robots for autonomous crop monitoring and phenotyping, including the TerraSentia robot for Field data collection in crop breeding programs.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Origin
Robot
Focus
Technology
CEO
Product
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Models (1)
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Current leadership (1)
- Girish Chowdhary Co-Foundersecondary-verified
Founders (1)
- Girish Chowdharycofounder
Safety record
No incidents on record for EarthSense.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
EarthSense in third-party press
Peer companies
- DJI7 models
- Naio Technologies4 models
- WORX Landroid4 models
- Carbon Robotics3 models
- Solinftec3 models
- AgriPass2 models
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
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Funding rounds (3)
- Seed
- Seed
- Seed
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 24, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (1)
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for EarthSense.Peer companies
- DJI7 models
- Naio Technologies4 models
- WORX Landroid4 models
- Carbon Robotics3 models
- Solinftec3 models
- AgriPass2 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning EarthSense from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Tech revolution: Earthsense aims to transform commercial palm oil farming with AI-powered bots - agnavigator.com
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Breaking the field phenotyping bottleneck in maize with autonomous robots - Nature
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How robots help plant breeders - Farm Progress
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“The Role of Robots in Conservation” - Illinois Soybean Association
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AI and the Future of Agriculture - The Grainger College of Engineering
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Toy-sized Tractor Drones Aim to Inspect Crops, Plant Covers - No-Till Farmer
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Collaboration for robotic farming aids - blogs.illinois.edu
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A fruitful partnership in agricultural robotics - blogs.illinois.edu
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TerraSentia Robot Automates the Labor-intense Process of Collecting Data to Improve Crop Breeding - Successful Farming
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A Growing Presence on the Farm: Robots (Published 2020) - The New York Times
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/earthsense.md
- RSS feed: /companies/earthsense/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/04a1b201-3b40-4167-ba5e-23ce2f88139e
- Revision history: /companies/earthsense/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- DJI7 models
- Naio Technologies4 models
- WORX Landroid4 models
- Carbon Robotics3 models
- Solinftec3 models
- AgriPass2 models
Video
A few of the amazing feats of agricultural robotics, autonomy and machine-learning that the EarthSense team has achieved despite this challenging year!
2019 Entrepreneurial Excellence: New Venture Award Recipient Formed in the last three years, and demonstrates a commitment to continuing success through entrep
Our 2019 model TerraSentia travels through a series of corn plots autonomously. TerraSentia navigates under the canopy using adaptive multi-sensor autonomy.
http://RoboticsAndAutomationNews.com [:-:] A startup company called EarthSense has launched a new farming robot it calls TerraSentia. EarthSense seems to be a
#noGPS Autonomous Navigation - TerraSentia 2021 autonomously driving down a corn row.
EarthSense's Terra AI uses real-time onboard data analysis of multiple low-cost sensors to enable robust, reliable autonomous navigation. Terra AI based autonom
The EarthSense team has been making tremendous leaps in creating AI-powered robotics solutions to some of the largest and most challenging farming problems in t
EarthSense was founded when University of Illinois engineering professor Girish Chowdhary and then postdoc Chinmay Soman partnered to apply their autonomous rob
EarthSense delivers the many benefits of in-season cover crop inter-seeding, without the heavy equipment, fuel, and labor costs! We have shown that our summer
Dennis Bowman, University of Illinois Extension Digital Agriculture Specialist, provides a demonstration of the EarthSense AI Robot. This presentation was recor
In this video, Michael McGuire presents EarthSense and describes the algorithms they use to build their autonomous agriculture robots. Read the full article: ww
Heat Index
Serious50/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
EarthSense draws attention at the 65th percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among ag robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 2, 2026