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Tevel Aerobotics x Kubota

Kubota invested about $20M in Tevel Aerobotics and partners with it to develop and commercialize flying autonomous fruit-picking robots, bringing Tevel's harvesting technology toward Kubota's global agricultural-equipment customers.

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Type
development
Status
Activeoperating
Announced
2021-01-01
5.6 years ago
Active for
5.6 years

Who’s involved

Tevel Aeroboticstechnology provider

Tevel Aerobotics Technologies is an Israeli agritech company developing autonomous flying fruit-picking robots known as Flying Autonomous Robots (FAR), which use AI and computer vision to identify ripe fruit and harvest it from trees using attached arms and grippers. Founded by Yaniv Maor, Tevel has raised $86M in total funding including an $18M Series C in March 2026 led by Sound Media Ventures with participation from [Kubota](/companies/kubota-corporation), AgFunder, and OurCrowd. The company is commercially operating across Italy, the US (California), Chile, and Israel.

HQIsraelwww.tevel-tech.com1 partnerships

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Kubotaco developer

Japanese agricultural and [Construction](/companies/construction-robotics) equipment; tractors, rice transplanters, and UTVs. Public company (TYO: 6326).

HQOsaka, Japankubotausa.com2 partnerships

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Sources (1)

  1. https://agfundernews.com/tevel-flying-fruit-bots-raise-20m-from-kubota-forbon-agfunder

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