We are celebrating three years of Nature Robots! 🚀

🌍 From research to innovation: Our journey began in 2016 with research at the University of Osnabrück into autonomous driving planning for uneven terrain - from forests to urban tunnels. This resulted in a highly flexible navigation control system that now runs on over 300 autonomous robots in production worldwide.

🚀 The start of Nature Robots: At the end of 2021, we laid the foundation for Nature Robots with the EXIST research transfer project PlantMap. Within just seven months, we developed our first autonomous monitoring robot Lero.01 and our modular autonomy software from scratch.

📍 What is PlantMap? The project aims to use autonomous robots to create high-resolution 3D maps of plants, record plant parameters and visualize them in a dashboard - a valuable support for farmers and plant breeders.

🏢 Growth & development: In October 2023, we moved into our own office at CIC Osnabrück, which opened up new networking opportunities and ushered in the next phase of development. Thanks to EXIST and other projects, we were able to massively develop our Autonomy Operating System and build two agricultural robots.

🚜 Our autonomy stacks for agriculture: Since 2023, the first customers have been relying on our ready-to-use autonomy stacks for various applications:

🌾 Open Field Nav - Autonomous solutions for weed control, seeding & harvesting

🍎 OrchVine Nav - Optimized navigation for orchards, vineyards & hop fields

🥕 Horti Nav - Advanced navigation for vegetable production, market gardening & breeding plots

📊 Our technology in use:

✔ >300 robots in use worldwide with our middleware software

✔ >150 ha processed with our software (sowing, spraying, hoeing, inventory 2024)

✔ >350 hours of autonomous driving on customer machines (2024)

🤖 Our Lero test and showcase farming robots:

✔ Lero.01 - Navigation showcase & monitoring robot for 3D mapping & crop detection

✔ Lero.02 - Advanced field robot for farming modules such as laser weeding - a flagship model with which we have already won our first customers for our autonomy software

✔ Lero.03 - Our highly modular & robust field robot, which you can experience live later this year!

📈 Google for Startups Accelerator: In 2024, we were selected by @Google for Startups for a prestigious accelerator program. As one of a few selected startups in Europe, we had the opportunity to sharpen our business case and work on the integration of state-of-the-art foundation models.

🏆 Our top awards:

• EXIST 25th Anniversary Award 2024 - 3rd place in Germany
• Digital Summit Euregio 2024 - 2nd place out of 50
• agROBOfood 2023 - 5th place out of 70 in the EU
• German Agri Startup Award 2023 - 1st place
• DurchSTARTer Award 2023 - 1st place in the Science Spin-off category
• Growth Alliance Audience Award 2022

Thank you to everyone who has accompanied us on this journey! We look forward to many more years of innovation and progress in agriculture.

📅 Save the Date: 27.08.2025! At our 3rd Demo Day in Arenshorst, we will be presenting our latest technologies - we look forward to seeing you there!