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Aigen.
Builds autonomous solar-powered Element robots for mechanical weed control and field analytics. Aigen has built more than 100 robots and logged more than 15,000 autonomous hours. Co-founder and CEO Kenny Lee; co-founder and CTO Richard Wurden.
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Overview
At a glance.
People
The team.
Field relationships · Aigen
Customers & deployments.
Robot · Aigen Element
Bowles Farming Company
Customer · Active · Grower / farm · US
Central Valley, California
cotton · mechanical weeding
Fleets available to growers for the 2027 season.
Robot · Aigen Element
KWS Seeds ↗
Partner · Active · Other · DE
sugar beet
Fleets available to growers for the 2027 season.
Robot · Aigen Element
NDSU Agronomy Seed Farm
Trial · Active · Research / university · US
North Dakota
sugar beet
Fleets available to growers for the 2027 season.
Robot · Aigen Element
Neil Rockstad
Trial · Active · Grower / farm · US
Ada, Minnesota · Ada, Minnesota / Red River Valley
sugar beet
Fleets available to growers for the 2027 season.
Robot · Aigen Element
50 commercial units
Pilot · Active
Red River Valley, USA
sugar beet
Fleets available to growers for the 2027 season.
Robot · Aigen Element Gen 2 X4
Unnamed commercial customers
Customer · Announced
row crops including sugar beet
Fleets available to growers for the 2027 season.
Company funding · Aigen
Funding & investors.
Nov 9, 2023
Series A
$12.0M USD
Aigen closed $12 million in Series A financing led by ReGen Ventures to expand manufacturing of Element solar robots, bringing total raised to $19 million.
Jan 18, 2022
Seed
$4.0M USD
Aigen announced a $4 million seed round led by NEA for its solar-powered agriculture robotics platform.
- NEA · Lead investor
- AgFunder
- Global Founders Capital
- ReGen Ventures
Product family · 1 robot
The machines.
Categories · Aigen
Where they work.
Podcasts
Podcasts.
Podcast · Aigen Element · Sep 30, 2026
From Farm to Future – How Robots Are Revolutionizing Agriculture With Kenny Lee ↗
Culture Talks / Lorne Rubis
Kenny Lee · Co-Founder and CEO
Speaker Kenny Lee, co-founder and CEO of Aigen; Culture Talks episode page.
Podcast · Aigen Element · Jul 28, 2026
Kenny Lee of Aigen on solar-powered robots that eliminate herbicide-resistant weeds ↗
KQLX / AgNews890
Kenny Lee · Co-Founder and CEO
Speaker Kenny Lee, Co-Founder and CEO of Aigen; posted 2026-07-28.
Podcast · Aigen Element · Mar 2, 2026
Scaling Low-Cost, Solar-Powered Robots for Agriculture | Usman Khan, Founding Engineer @ Aigen | Scaling Robotics Episode 5 ↗
Scaling Robotics
Usman Khan · Founding Engineer
Speaker: Usman Khan, Founding Engineer at Aigen. Apple Podcasts: published 2 Mar 2026 at 4:00 PM UTC, 40 min. Aigen builds solar-powered autonomous rovers for agriculture, starting with mechanical weeding.
Podcast · Aigen Element · Oct 22, 2024
Can Solar-Powered Robots Make Farming Chemical-Free? ↗
Green New Perspective Spotlight / NPWS
Kenny Lee · Co-Founder and CEO
Speaker: Kenny Lee, co-founder and CEO of Aigen. Host: Dunja Jovanovic.
Podcast · Aigen Element · Apr 15, 2024
Autonomous Solar-Powered Agricultural Robots | Kenny Lee - Co-Founder & CEO of Aigen ↗
Built for Earth
Kenny Lee · Co-Founder and CEO
Speaker: Kenny Lee, co-founder and CEO of Aigen. Pesticide-free solar-powered robotics platform; Kenny alongside co-founder Richard Wurden launched Aigen in late 2021; episode covers the Aigen Element robot and sugar beets.
Talks
Talks.
Talk · Aigen Element · Oct 24, 2026
Kenny Lee at FIRA USA 2026 on Element four-arm upgrades ↗
Conservation Ag Update / No-Till Farmer
Kenny Lee · Co-Founder and CEO
Speaker Kenny Lee, Co-Founder and CEO of Aigen. Conservation Ag Update booth interview at FIRA USA 2026 in Yakima. Segment starts at 4:03 in the YouTube episode “New Cash Crop Gives No-Till Soils a Boost.” Lee says Element uses a mechanical hoe to uproot herbicide-resistant weeds, that compute was upgraded, and that a fourth arm lets the robot run four arms for a full season without swapping batteries..
Press
Press.
Trade press · Aigen Element · Oct 24, 2026
Live from FIRA: New Tech Fights Herbicide-Resistant Weeds ↗
Precision Farming Dealer
Kenny Lee · Co-Founder and CEO
Mackane Vogel reports from FIRA USA on Kenny Lee discussing Element compute and four-arm upgrades.
Trade press · Aigen Element Gen 2 X4 · Sep 18, 2026
Aigen Launches Element Gen 2 X4 ↗
sugarproducer.com
X4 launch item
Updates
News & developments.
Product news · Oct 6, 2026
Aigen trains solar-powered farming robots for new crops in under a week ↗
roboticsandautomationnews.com
Richard Wurden · Co-Founder and CTO
Robotics & Automation News 6 Oct 2026 (Sam Francis): Alchemy is a generative world model for the open field; Element can be deployed on a new row crop in under a week (lettuce learned in simulation, then deployed in the field). Element comes with 2, 3 or 4 arms; solar with battery backup; removes weeds with foliage up to 6 inches; 100+ robots built and 15,000+ autonomous hours across California, Minnesota and North Dakota (soybeans, tomatoes, sugarbeets, lettuce, cotton); taking orders for the 2027 season; will demo Element at FIRA USA, Yakima, Oct 20–22. Quote from Richard Wurden, co-founder and CTO: “Growers can't control what diesel will cost next month, but they can run their weed control on sunlight.” Alchemy pages: training datasets up to 100% synthetic (99–100%). NVIDIA case study: Alchemy includes post-trained NVIDIA Cosmos; three Jetson Orin NX modules on the newest robots.
Product news · Aug 3, 2026
Aigen launches Alchemy, a world model for the open field ↗
aigen.io
Aigen.io/news/alchemy-world-model (3 Aug 2026) and aigen.io/alchemy: Alchemy is a generative world model for the open field. Training datasets up to 100% synthetic (Aigen site: 99–100%). Supporting NVIDIA case study: Alchemy includes post-trained NVIDIA Cosmos; three Jetson Orin NX modules on the newest robots.
Appearances
In the field.
Product · Aigen Element
FIRA USA 2026 ↗
Oct 20, 2026 – Oct 22, 2026
Yakima, US
demo
Robotics & Automation News 6 Oct 2026 (Sam Francis): Aigen will demo Element at FIRA USA, Yakima, Oct 20–22. Not taken from the FIRA exhibitor directory.
Product · Aigen Element
FIRA USA 2026 ↗
Oct 20, 2026 – Oct 22, 2026
Yakima, US
exhibitor
Booth 32 on the official October expo map. Expo map also places Aigen in the vegetable demo zone.
Product · Aigen Element
FIRA USA 2026 ↗
Oct 20, 2026 – Oct 22, 2026
Yakima, US
speaker
Kenny Lee, Co-Founder and CEO, speaks Wednesday 21 October 2026, 10:30–11:50, Main Stage 1. Session: Technical Talks — Building the Tech Stack for Agricultural Autonomy. Upcoming stage slot.