Robot model
Burro
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.
Burro is an agriculture robot built by
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /models/burro-amr.md
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- REST API: /v1/models/1f2aec31-a22f-42b3-9612-f87ba93f2409
- Data documentation: /data
- Form factor
- agriculture
- Maturity stage
- commercial
- Lifecycle
- active
- Deployments
- 0
- ID
1f2aec31-a22f-42b3-9612-f87ba93f2409
Specs
- notes
- [object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
- products
- Burro (base; ~500 lb carry, tows ~1,000-2,000 lb) + Burro Grande (1,500 lb carry / 5,000 lb tow; Burro Operating System, indoor/outdoor lidar autonomy)
- formFactor
- agriculture (outdoor autonomous wheeled ground cart / AMR; follow-me + autonomous route-running)
Supply chain
No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this model’s suppliers.
Suppliers appear here when verified with at least two strong sources (maker-official / IR / regulatory / standards-body / verified tier-2). Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history.
Sources (6)
- https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/burro-closes-24-million-series-b-co-led-by-catalyst-investors-and-translink-capital-302029256.html
- https://agfundernews.com/with-a-fresh-24m-burro-grows-from-people-to-pallet-scale-with-autonomous-harvest-assist-robots
- https://www.therobotreport.com/burro-raises-10-9m-series-a-to-accelerate-agriculture-robotics/
- https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2025/10/08/burro-expands-autonomous-robot-fleet-at-petitti-family-farms/95253/
- https://burro.ai/burro-grande/
- https://technical.ly/startups/robotics-philadelphia-burro-series-b-raise/
Common questions
- What is Burro?
- 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.
- Who makes Burro?
- Burro is made by Burro, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, founded in 2017.
- Where is Burro deployed?
- No verified deployments of Burro are currently on the DEPLOY registry. DEPLOY records deployments only when verified at a named site with a primary source; absence may reflect pre-deployment, research, or manufacturer-internal use.
- What is Burro's maturity stage?
- Burro is at the commercial stage on the DEPLOY maturity ladder (research, prototype, pilot, commercial, production). Commercial stage means production-grade deployments are operating at named customer sites.