The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Robotics Plus: 1 model. 1 source back the record.
CategoryAgricultural robots
Overview
New Zealand agricultural robotics company developing autonomous vehicles for orchard and vineyard operations. Acquired by Yamaha motor in February 2025 and integrated into Yamaha Agriculture, a new US-based agricultural technology company.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Co-founder
HQ
Founded
Product
Q Series sprayers
Yamaha investment
Acquisition
Yamaha Agriculture
ACC NZ investment
Incidents
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Models (1)
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Every company Robotics Plus has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Robotics Plus on the deployment map
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Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Steve Saunders Co-founder & Chief Strategy OfficerSEC-verified
Founders (1)
- Steve Saunderscofounder
Safety record
No incidents on record for Robotics Plus.
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
Robotics Plus in third-party press
Peers
88 peers across 1 segment. Every Robotics Plus competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
av(88)
57 companies in this segment · highly_concentrated (HHI 4969.122215850638) · leader Waymo at 6990%
- A&K Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AIRdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Alsodirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Aseon Labsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Aurora Innovationdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AutoXdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- acquired
- Counterparty risk class
- low
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
2 total · 2 operating
Every company Robotics Plus has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
All 2 partnerships
open in the atlas →- robotics-plus x nvidiawithNVIDIA1112technology—operating
- robotics-plus x awswithAWS976technology—operating
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 27, 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 Robotics Plus.Peer companies
- DJI7 models
- Naio Technologies4 models
- WORX Landroid4 models
- Carbon Robotics3 models
- Solinftec3 models
- AgriPass2 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Robotics Plus from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Robotics Plus Acquisition By Yamaha Motor To Enable Precision Agriculture For Growers
Yamaha Motor acquired Robotics Plus to enable precision agriculture, launching Yamaha Agriculture as a new US-based agricultural technology company integrating Robotics Plus and…
Yamaha buys Tauranga's Robotics Plus, unveils big plans
Japanese giant Yamaha Motor bought Robotics Plus, the Tauranga maker of AI-powered robot vehicles for orchard jobs such as picking, spraying and pruning.
Robotics Plus launches multi-use AV for sustainable orchard and vineyard production
Robotics Plus launched Prospr, an autonomous multi-use hybrid vehicle for orchard and vineyard crop tasks including spraying, weed control, and harvesting support.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/robotics-plus.md
- RSS feed: /companies/robotics-plus/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/987af446-2aa4-4090-ac41-bef52040e63b
- Revision history: /companies/robotics-plus/history
- Data documentation: /data
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Peer companies
- DJI7 models
- Naio Technologies4 models
- WORX Landroid4 models
- Carbon Robotics3 models
- Solinftec3 models
- AgriPass2 models
Video
In this episode of "Let's Talk Farm to Fork," we're joined by Steve Saunders from Robotics Plus, who we'll talk to about how his autonomous Food and Ag robots a
Transform your next spray season, learn more about Prospr here https://www.roboticsplus.co.nz/products/ground-vehicles/unmanned-ground-vehicle/
This Video Demonstrates the Robotics Plus Automated Tray Filling System for Apples.
Transform your next spray season, learn more about Prospr here https://www.roboticsplus.co.nz/products/ground-vehicles/unmanned-ground-vehicle/
Robotics Plus presented its Robotics Plus UVV robot during FIRA USA 2022 in October 2022 in Fresno (California). A modular platform, designed to accommodate sw
Prospr is a robust, autonomous, multi-use hybrid vehicle platform that significantly increases efficiency across a variety of crop tasks. With our unique modula
Stave Saunders talks about how Robotics Plus is building some of the coolest apple sorting (and other) robots.
This Innovators Spotlight focuses on Robotics Plus and its CTO/Director, Alistair Scarfe, Ph.D. Robotics Plus is a New Zealand company that manufactures hybrid
In this special episode of Get a Grip, host Jose Hotema is joined by Joe Brandt and Dan Grollman of Plus One Robotics for an exclusive preview of an internal pr
Heat Index
Serious54/100
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
Robotics Plus draws attention at the 49th 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