Deployment
Orio at Bradford, Ontario
Naio Technologies' Orio is a large autonomous tool-carrier robot platform (successor to the Dino) for large-scale vegetable and field crops, supporting multiple implements for weeding and other tasks.
Orio by Naio Technologies · Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verified
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- Markdown mirror: /deployments/naio-orio-ontario-crops-research-centre.md
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/robots/8411500e-8d08-4ffb-9843-466a7d0310fa
- Data documentation: /data
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A three-year (2023 to 2025) University of Guelph study, led by Dr. Mary Ruth McDonald with the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance, runs a Naio Orio at the Ontario Crops Research Centre in Bradford (Holland Marsh) and on a cooperating muck-soil vegetable farm, measuring operating cost, agronomic performance and grower adoption.
Safety record
No incidents on record for Orio at Bradford, Ontario.
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- Trust tier
- Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verified
- Last updated
- 2026-07-09
- Model
- Orio
- Company
- Naio Technologies
- Location
- Bradford, Ontario
- Status
- pilot
- First seen
- 2023-06-01
- ID
8411500e-8d08-4ffb-9843-466a7d0310fa
Sources (1)
- These self-driving weed-cutting robots transform the future of farming · https://news.uoguelph.ca/2024/08/these-self-driving-weed-cutting-robots-transform-the-future-of-farming-says-u-of-g-researcher/ · 2024-08-01
Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-09
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-07-09
Maturity + lifecycle
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: agriculture
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
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Methodology surface for Orio at Bradford, Ontario.Common questions
- What is the Orio deployment at Bradford, Ontario?
- Orio, built by Naio Technologies, is recorded as a deployment at Bradford, Ontario on the DEPLOY registry. Naio Technologies operates the deployment directly.
- Who operates Orio at Bradford, Ontario?
- Naio Technologies, the manufacturer of Orio, operates this deployment directly. This is a maker-deploys-its-own-product arrangement rather than a customer pilot.
- When did the Orio deployment at Bradford, Ontario go live?
- The deployment is recorded as starting June 1, 2023 on the DEPLOY registry. Earlier activity may exist but is not yet sourced.
- Have there been incidents at the Orio deployment at Bradford, Ontario?
- No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.
- Is Orio at Bradford, Ontario safe?
- Orio at Bradford, Ontario has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.
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