Milestones
- Mixed-fleet specialty crop offeringNowCurrent milestone.
Most important updates
- 10 Feb 2026
- 21 Oct 2025
- 24 Jul 2025
- 2024
Current obstacles
- Dust and variable lightingHarvest dust and shady canopies make it harder for cameras to see.
Physics limits
- Tree canopies block satellite signalsLeaves and branches absorb and scatter GPS signals, so centimetre-accurate positioning drops out in orchards. Vision must fill the gap, but it only knows position relative to what it can see.
- Vision position errors add up over distanceEstimating motion from images makes small errors each frame, and they accumulate. Without fixed reference points, a machine slowly drifts off its true position and must re-anchor to recognised landmarks.
How it works
See
Cameras instead of GPS
Cameras on the machine watch the tree rows and ground; software works out where it is from what it sees, not from satellites.
Steer
Driving between the rows
The software steers harvesters, sweepers and small robots down rows and around obstacles, even under thick tree canopy.
Fleet
One system, many machines
The same autonomy software runs on different makes of machine, so a grower can automate a mixed fleet.
Update log
Tue 10 Feb
- Minor: BlogHardware
Tue 21 Oct 2025
- Minor: BlogHardware
Thu 24 Jul 2025
- Minor: PressCommercial
2024
- Minor: PressFunding
About Bonsai Robotics
Bonsai Robotics
Camera-based orchard autonomy, farm-ng Amiga
San Jose company making camera-based self-driving kits for orchard and specialty-crop machines, built to work under thick tree cover where GPS fails. In 2025 it bought farm-ng, maker of the small modular Amiga robot.
- Camera-first autonomy for orchards such as almonds, where tree canopy blocks GPS signals.
- Bought farm-ng in July 2025 to cover both tree crops and small bedded crops.
- Raised a $15M Series A from agtech investors including Acre Venture Partners.
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- Headquarters
- United States
- Status
- Private
- Valuation
- private
- Works in
- AgricultureSelf-driving tractorsRobotics
- Coverage
- 1 program · 4 updateslatest 10 Feb 2026checked 25 Sep