CategoryAgricultural robots
Overview
Orchard Robotics is a San Francisco-based precision agriculture company building an AI-powered farming platform that attaches camera systems to existing tractors and farm vehicles to collect ultra-high-resolution crop data. Founded by Thiel fellow Charlie Wu in 2022, the company's Orchard Vision System captures up to 100 images per second as farmers drive through fields, using computer vision to analyze fruit count, size, color, and health on every tree.
The data feeds into Orchard OS, a cloud-based software platform that helps fruit growers make data-driven decisions about fertilization, pruning, thinning, and harvesting across apple, grape, blueberry, cherry, almond, pistachio, citrus, and strawberry crops.
Reality check
FruitScope Vision (company-claimed)
AI cameras on tractors and ATVs capture data on every tree, vine or plant.
FruitScope OS (company-claimed)
Farm management software turning plant-level data into decisions.
Crops (company-claimed)
Apple, grape, blueberry, cherry, almond, pistachio, citrus and strawberry.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 3 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Founder (reported, unconfirmed)
Funding (reported, unconfirmed)
Data & sources
Press releases
1
Web sources
1
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Models (1)
View all models →Orchard Robotics on the deployment map
View the global map3 verified deployments across 2 regions, newest verified Jan 2024. Explore where Orchard Robotics's robots are operating, by place and type.
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Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Charlie Wu Founder & CEOsecondary-verified
Founders (1)
- Charlie Wusolefounded 2022-01-01
Safety record
No incidents on record for Orchard Robotics.
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 →
Operator customers (1)
- Orchard Robotics3 deployments
Recent coverage
Orchard Robotics in third-party press
Peers
85 peers across 1 segment. Every Orchard Robotics competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
amr(85)
53 companies in this segment · moderately_concentrated (HHI 2073.1177093090264) · leader Boston Dynamics at 4191%
- 4AG Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- SwarmFarm Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- 6 River Systemsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- ATOMSdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Addverbdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Aethondirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Mentioned on (2)
Registry pages whose text names Orchard Robotics.
Robots and products (1)
People (1)
Financial state
- Total funding
- $25.8M
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Funding rounds (2)
Orchard Robotics’s 2 disclosed rounds, $26M in total, oldest to newest.
- Series A2025-09-01
$22M(reported)
Investors: Quiet Capital (lead), Shine Capital (lead), General Catalyst (follow), Contrary (follow)
- Seed2024-03-27
$4M
Investors: General Catalyst (lead), Contrary (follow), Humba Ventures (follow), Soma Capital (follow), Correlation Ventures (follow)
Timeline
Every recorded move in Orchard Robotics’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2025-09-01Series A raising $22000000
Funding roundSeed funding round
2024-03-27Seed raising $3800000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 8, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJan 1, 2024
Orchard Vision System at Dyson Farming, United Kingdom
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJan 1, 2023
Orchard Vision System at United States Grape Farms
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJan 1, 2023
Orchard Vision System at United States Apple Farms
Sources (2)
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Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (1 primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-21
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-21
Sources by quality tier
- 1
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- Company IR disclosure
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Orchard Robotics.Peer companies
- DJI9 models
- Naio Technologies4 models
- Carbon Robotics3 models
- Tevel Aerobotics3 models
- Antobot2 models
- FarmRobo Technologies2 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Orchard Robotics from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
🎥 Orchard Robotics CEO: Growers ‘shouldn’t have to be data analysts’
“In the first year, if a grower sees full value from labor and input savings, they can see anywhere from three to 10x ROI," says CEO Charlie Wu. The post 🎥 Orchard Robotics CEO:…
Orchard Robotics, an agtech startup using AI to solve farming data problem, raises 22M
Orchard Robotics raised 22M in a Series A led by Quiet Capital and Shine Capital, with participation from General Catalyst, Contrary, Mythos, Valyrian, Ravelin, and angel…
Orchard Robotics, founded by a Thiel fellow Cornell dropout, raises 22M for farm vision AI
Orchard Robotics raised a 22M Series A led by Quiet Capital and Shine Capital for its tractor-mounted AI camera system that analyzes fruit health.
The AI farming company Orchard Robotics bags 22m to expand precision ag platform
Orchard Robotics secured 22M in an oversubscribed Series A to double its team and open a San Francisco office, with participation from General Catalyst and Contrary.
Orchard Robotics Raises 3.8M in Funding
Orchard Robotics raised 3.8M in seed and pre-seed funding led by General Catalyst, with participation from Contrary, Humba Ventures, Soma Capital, and angel investors including…
Orchard vision system turns farm equipment into AI-powered data collectors
Orchard Robotics announced a 3.2M seed round led by General Catalyst for its vehicle-mounted AI camera system that gathers precision crop data for fruit farmers.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/orchard-robotics.md
- RSS feed: /companies/orchard-robotics/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/7b97d12f-e4a9-41ef-b13c-68b2836a4223
- Revision history: /companies/orchard-robotics/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- DJI9 models
- Naio Technologies4 models
- Carbon Robotics3 models
- Tevel Aerobotics3 models
- Antobot2 models
- FarmRobo Technologies2 models
Video
To learn more about how to get Orchard Robotics technology at your farm, contact hello@orchard-robotics.com or visit orchard-robotics.com!
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Presentation of progress by Orchard Robotics Charles Wu https://www.orchard-robotics.com/ Developers Conference for Precision Crop Load Management of Apples Ho
New technologies being developed by agricultural engineer Dr. Dana Choi use tiny cameras to identify fruit on trees. This information can help growers estimate
Charlie Wu, the founder of Orchard Robotics, didn’t exactly plan to reinvent farming. But while studying computer science at Cornell (home to some of the world’
Heat Index
Category contender75/100
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
Orchard Robotics draws attention at the 62nd percentile but verifies reality at the 63rd percentile among ag robots. Hype Gap -1, 30th widest among ag robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 3 verified deployments. Funded with institutional backing on record. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category peers.
Signal flags
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: Nov 6, 2026