# Orchard Robotics: agricultural robotics company

Canonical ID: `7b97d12f-e4a9-41ef-b13c-68b2836a4223`

## Key facts

- **CEO:** [Charlie Wu](/people/charlie-wu-orchard.md)
- **Total Funding:** [25.8M (over pre-seed, seed, and Series A)](/investors.md) ([see investors](/investors.md))
- **Crops Supported:** Apple, grape, blueberry, cherry, almond, pistachio, citrus, strawberry
- **HQ:** San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded:** 2022 at Cornell University

- **Slug:** orchard-robotics
- **Founded:** 2022
- **HQ:** San Francisco, California, USA
- **Funding total (USD):** 25000000
- **Category:** [Agricultural robots](/agriculture)

## Models

- [Orchard Vision System](/models/orchard-vision-system.md) (agriculture) (id: `8a92a6ec-4738-4c5f-8860-c40b32e924b8`)

## Current leadership (2)

- [Charlie Wu](/people/charlie-wu-orchard.md) Founder & CEO (secondary-verified)
- [Charlie Wu](/people/charlie-wu-orchard.md) Founder & CEO (secondary-verified)

## Supplies to

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## Common questions

### What is Orchard Robotics?

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.

### What does Orchard Robotics make?

Orchard Robotics has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: Orchard Vision System (Orchard Robotics builds physical robots).

### Who competes with Orchard Robotics?

On the DEPLOY registry, peer companies to Orchard Robotics building in the same form factors include DJI, Naio Technologies, WORX Landroid, Carbon Robotics.

### Where is Orchard Robotics headquartered?

Orchard Robotics is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.

### How much funding has Orchard Robotics raised?

Orchard Robotics has raised approximately $25M in disclosed funding on record in the DEPLOY registry.

### Where does Orchard Robotics operate robots?

Orchard Robotics is a robot manufacturer and does not directly operate deployments on the DEPLOY registry. Its products are deployed by customer operators; see the company page for the verified deployment record.

### Is Orchard Robotics a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Orchard Robotics ranks in roughly the top 12% of companies tracked by the registry.


## The verified answers

- [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md)
- [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md)
- [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md)

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