Burro at Delano

Burro (founded in 2017 as Augean Robotics; headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with a Western office in Visalia, California; founder and CEO Charlie Andersen) makes outdoor autonomous wheeled ground carts that follow workers and run autonomous point-to-point routes, using a vision-first system the company calls Pop-Up Autonomy that needs no central command or pre-installed infrastructure, with RTK-GPS and lidar as options. The robot originated hauling table grapes and expanded into berries and nursery crops.

The registry records it at commercial maturity: at its January 2024 Series B the company reported more than 300 robots in paid commercial use across 40-plus customers in six countries, with over 75,000 autonomous miles, and by October 2025 reported more than 800,000 autonomous hours, with anchor customer Petitti Family Farms scaling from ten to twenty-five Burro Grande units during 2025. The product line spans the base Burro, which carries about 500 pounds and tows roughly 1,000 to 2,000 pounds, and the larger Burro Grande, which carries up to 1,500 pounds and tows up to 5,000 pounds on the Burro Operating System with indoor and outdoor lidar autonomy.

Confirmed funding rounds are a $1.5 million seed, a $10.9 million Series A in October 2021, and a $24 million Series B in January 2024 co-led by Catalyst Investors and Translink Capital, with the total left approximate since aggregator figures conflict. A reported NVIDIA partnership could not be verified against any primary source and is not asserted here; the Burro Operating System is Burro's own software, distinct from any NVIDIA tie.