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Naio weeding robots (Ted / Oz / Orio) at Bradford, Ontario

Naio Technologies (founded 2011 in Escalquens, near Toulouse, France; founders Aymeric Barthes and Gaetan Severac) is one of the most established commercial agricultural-robot makers, with more than 350 all-electric autonomous robots deployed across five continents. Its machines use RTK-GPS and camera vision for herbicide-free mechanical weeding, and its current lineup includes Ted (a vineyard straddle weeder), Oz (a small market-garden sowing and weeding assistant), Jo (a compact vineyard and nursery robot), and Orio (an autonomous vegetable-crop tool-carrier that succeeds the now-discontinued Dino).

Its peak financing was a $33 million (about 31 million euro) Series B led by Mirova in December 2022. The registry records it at commercial maturity with an active lifecycle, while flagging a significant 2025 restructuring: Naio entered French judicial recovery in June 2025 and was relaunched under new ownership and leadership, with CEO Antoine Monville, in late October and November 2025, backed by a roughly 6.4 million euro financing plan that included a Mirova reinvestment of about 3.5 million euro plus support from Bpifrance and the Occitanie region.

Revenue had declined from about 3.96 million euro in 2021 to about 2.4 million euro in 2024. The relaunch refocuses on the most profitable robots, Ted and Oz, leaving Orio's commercial future uncertain.

Naio weeding robots (Ted / Oz / Orio) by Naio Technologies · Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verified · Agricultural robots

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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.

Exposure

Customer segment
agriculture
Scale tier
pilot lt10

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No incidents on record for Naio weeding robots (Ted / Oz / Orio) at Bradford, Ontario.

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Trust tier
Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verifiedhow tiers work →
Last updated
2026-08-21
Model
Naio weeding robots (Ted / Oz / Orio)
Company
Naio Technologies
Location
Canada/Bradford, Ontario
Operator
Naio Technologies
Status
pilot
Operator type
maker operated
Scale at site
2 to 10 units
Site environment
outdoor
Location precision
verified coordinates
First seen
2023-06-01
ID
8411500e-8d08-4ffb-9843-466a7d0310fa

Timeline

  1. Jun 2023
    First recorded
    Naio weeding robots (Ted / Oz / Orio) first documented operating at Bradford, Ontario.
  2. Aug 2026
    Current status: pilot, reviewed
    Latest recorded state. New status transitions append here as the deployment-status recorder produces them.

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Sources (1)

  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 2026-08-21

Verification posture

Verified

Low confidence

Review state

Stable

Last reviewed 2026-08-21

Maturity + lifecycle

Maturity stage: commercial

Lifecycle: active

Architectural position

Cohort: agriculture

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1
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Common questions

What is the Naio weeding robots (Ted / Oz / Orio) deployment at Bradford, Ontario?
Naio weeding robots (Ted / Oz / 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 Naio weeding robots (Ted / Oz / Orio) at Bradford, Ontario?
Naio Technologies, the manufacturer of Naio weeding robots (Ted / Oz / Orio), operates this deployment directly. This is a maker-deploys-its-own-product arrangement rather than a customer pilot.
When did the Naio weeding robots (Ted / Oz / 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 Naio weeding robots (Ted / Oz / 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.

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