Tyler Niday
CEO & Co-Founder
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People
The team.
Ugur Oezdemir
Co-founder
Field relationships · Bonsai Robotics
Customers & deployments.
Robot · Bonsai Robotics VisionSteer
Reservoir Farms – Salinas ↗
Partner · Active · Other · US
Salinas, California
leafy greens, strawberries, onion, and celery · incubator residency
Bonsai Robotics listed in the initial Reservoir Farms – Salinas resident cohort.
Robot · Bonsai Robotics VisionSteer
Reservoir Farms – Wine Country ↗
Partner · Active · Other · US
Sonoma, California
pinot noir · Wine Country residency
Bonsai Robotics is among startups taking to the field this spring at Reservoir Farms Wine Country.
Robot · Bonsai Robotics VisionSteer
Reservoir Farms – Washington ↗
Partner · Announced · Other · US
Yakima, Washington
tree fruit and blueberries · Washington campus residency
Bonsai Robotics and Sky Sense, which are already developing technology for tree fruit, and early-stage startups Cordon and Rootline will join Reservoir Farms – Washington as members.
Company funding · Bonsai Robotics
Funding & investors.
Jan 28, 2025
Series A
$15.0M USD
Bonsai Robotics raised $15 million in oversubscribed Series A funding led by Bison Ventures to advance physical AI for agriculture.
Oct 2, 2023
Seed
$13.5M USD
Bonsai Robotics raised a $13.5 million seed led by Acre Venture Partners for vision-based autonomy in orchards and other off-road settings.
Product family · 1 robot
The machines.
Categories · Bonsai Robotics
Where they work.
Video
In motion.
More videos
Bonsai World
Video · Bonsai Robotics · physical AI / world model / simulation
Podcasts
Podcasts.
Podcast · Bonsai Robotics VisionSteer · Oct 27, 2026
Building the Real World Farm Lab for Physical AI ↗
The Road to Autonomy
Danny Bernstein, Founder and CEO of Reservoir, talks with host Grayson Brulte and Paige Bailey, AI Developer Relations Lead at Google DeepMind, about moving rugged physical AI from simulation onto a working farm in Salinas. The episode names Bonsai Robotics among residents that tested there and covers grower trust, crops bred for automation, and on-device vision models. 37 minutes. Audio only — link-out.
Podcast · Oct 16, 2026
Farm robotics, John Deere and autonomy economics ↗
The Core Matter Show
Tyler Niday · CEO & Co-Founder
Tyler Niday, CEO and co-founder of Bonsai Robotics, talks with Michelle Sun. Published 16 October 2026 from a 19 August 2026 conversation at Reservoir Farms, Salinas. Niday covers Blue River lettuce thinning, John Deere, dusty Australian orchards, hybrid-electric fuel use (about 3 gallons a day versus 35), Amiga Flex / Amiga Max, and field learning. In August 2026 he said Bonsai had deployed about 70 large machines with equipment partners since the prior year.
Podcast · Oct 16, 2026
Farm robotics, John Deere and autonomy economics — Tyler Niday, Bonsai Robotics ↗
The Core Matter Show
Tyler Niday · CEO & Co-Founder
Tyler Niday, CEO and co-founder of Bonsai Robotics, talks with Michelle Sun. Published 16 October 2026 from a 19 August 2026 conversation at Reservoir Farms, Salinas. Niday covers Blue River lettuce thinning, John Deere, dusty Australian orchards, hybrid-electric fuel use (about 3 gallons a day versus 35), Amiga Flex / Amiga Max, and field learning. In August 2026 he said Bonsai had deployed about 70 large machines with equipment partners since the prior year.
Podcast · Bonsai Robotics VisionSteer · Oct 5, 2026
AgEmerge Podcast 190 with Tyler Niday | Bonsai Robotics and Practical Autonomous Farm Solutions ↗
Ag Solutions Network / AgEmerge Podcast
Tyler Niday · CEO & Co-Founder
Speaker: Tyler Niday, CEO & Co-Founder, Bonsai Robotics. YouTube id Cvs7v5FLSN0. Publisher Ag Solutions Network / AgEmerge Podcast (host Monte Bottens). Third-party YouTube —. Distinct from the Bonsai FoA episode in this drip.
Podcast · Bonsai Robotics VisionSteer · Sep 17, 2026
Deploying Autonomy on the Farm with Tyler Niday of Bonsai Robotics ↗
Future of Agriculture
Tyler Niday · CEO & Co-Founder
Speaker: Tyler Niday, founder and CEO of Bonsai Robotics. Future of Agriculture episodes index and Clear Commodity Network reprint list 17 September 2026. Bonsai builds vision-AI-first autonomous systems for outdoor equipment, starting in specialty crops. Distinct from AgEmerge Podcast 190 (Cvs7v5FLSN0).
Talks
Talks.
Talk · Bonsai Robotics VisionSteer · Oct 7, 2026
Tyler Niday on TBPN: 430 autonomous machines and a Nvidia Cosmos world model ↗
TBPN
Tyler Niday · CEO & Co-Founder
Tyler Niday, co-founder and CEO of Bonsai Robotics, interviewed on TBPN on 7 October 2026 (YouTube id jXHdYOOuxDU, segment about 1:51:38). 430 autonomous machines deployed. World model trained on Nvidia Cosmos with about one million acres of data.
Updates
News & developments.
Product news · Oct 20, 2026
Reservoir Farms Yakima campus opening 2027 ↗
reservoir.co
The Yakima, Washington campus crop focus as tree fruit and blueberries, wine grapes and hops, with row crops to follow. Partners named there are the Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission, the Tri-City Development Council, and the North American Blueberry Council, and Reservoir is exploring a partnership with Washington State University’s Prosser IAREC. Startups named on the page are Bonsai Robotics, Cordon, and Rootline Robotics.
Product news · Oct 20, 2026
Reservoir Farms to open physical AI hub in Washington State ↗
agfundernews.com
Reservoir Farms Washington opens in spring 2027 and membership tops 30 startups. Danny Bernstein said Reservoir will do $5 million-plus ARR in 2026 and is already profitable. Bonsai Robotics, Sky Sense, Cordon, and Rootline Robotics will join the Washington site. Initial work is apples, pears, cherries, and cultivated blueberries, with wine grapes and hops to follow.
Product news · Oct 20, 2026
Reservoir Farms expands to Washington State ↗
reservoir.co
Reservoir announced Reservoir Farms – Washington, a Yakima Valley campus expected to open spring 2027. Initial work will focus on tree fruit and blueberries, with additional testing in wine grapes and hops and plans to extend into row crops. Partners named in the release are the Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission, the Tri-City Development Council, and the North American Blueberry Council; Reservoir is also exploring a partnership with Washington State University’s Prosser IAREC. Bonsai Robotics, Sky Sense, Cordon, and Rootline will join as members. Reservoir says more than 30 startups are enrolled across its locations. The announcement was made at FIRA USA 2026.
Product news · Oct 16, 2026
Startups taking to the field this spring at Reservoir Farms Wine Country ↗
reservoir.co
The Sonoma campus is 14 acres of pinot noir in partnership with Sonoma County Winegrowers. Robot companies on the current field roster include Beagle Technology, Bonsai Robotics, and Rootline Robotics.
Product news · Oct 16, 2026
Startups taking to the field this spring at Reservoir Farms Salinas Valley ↗
reservoir.co
The Salinas Valley campus is 40 acres of leafy greens, strawberries, onion, and celery. Robot companies on the current field roster include Beagle Technology, BHF Robotics, Bonsai Robotics, Niqo Robotics, Sami Robotics, Synphony, and TRIC Robotics.
Product news · Oct 8, 2026
A former Deere engineer’s bet on physical AI that works in orchard dust ↗
heyfuturenexus.com
Tyler Niday · CEO & Co-Founder
Shubham Sharma interviews Tyler Niday, CEO and co-founder of Bonsai Robotics. Niday spent seven years at Blue River Technology, which built See & Spray and was acquired by John Deere in 2017 for $305 million, then helped start Deere’s autonomy team. He co-founded Bonsai in 2022 with Ugur Oezdemir. Bonsai claims more than 400 machines deployed across the United States and Australia and more than a million acres of data. First commercial autonomous deployments went out in early 2025. Niday says bookings and revenue are growing 3.5–4x year over year. Bonsai acquired farm-ng and the Amiga platform in July 2025. Bonsai World trained a kiwi over-the-row vine operation entirely on world-model data. Niday said Bonsai also has customers in mining, defense and construction.
Product news · Oct 2, 2026
Bonsai Robotics Unveils Bonsai World to Accelerate Physical AI Across Rugged Environments ↗
bonsairobotics.ai
Tyler Niday · CEO & Co-Founder
Bonsai Robotics press, 2 Oct 2026 (San Jose): Bonsai World is a new simulation and world-model application inside Bonsai Intelligence, the environmental intelligence layer that powers autonomy on the Amiga platform and retrofitted OEM equipment. Starting with satellite imagery of a farm, mine site, or other rugged environment, it turns a 2D map into a structured 3D simulation; photorealistic ground-level views can add dust, debris, animals, vehicles, and changing terrain before equipment is deployed. Foundation and World Models trained on more than 50 million real-world samples collected across more than one million acres. Tyler Niday, CEO and co-founder: “Every environment we operate on expands what the system understands… Bonsai World lets us compound that experience—to take what we’ve learned in the field, generate the conditions we haven’t seen yet, and prepare the next machine before it ever gets there.” Les Karpas, Inception Global Head of Physical AI at NVIDIA, quoted on NVIDIA Cosmos and accelerated computing. Darren Mowry, VP, Global Startups and Investor Ecosystem at Google, quoted on Google Cloud / Gemini vision models and Bonsai’s own world-model training.
Appearances
In the field.
Product · Farm-ng Amiga
FIRA USA 2026 ↗
Oct 20, 2026 – Oct 22, 2026
Yakima, US
exhibitor
Growth exhibitor. Booth 10 on the official October expo map.
Product · Farm-ng Amiga
FIRA USA 2026 ↗
Oct 20, 2026 – Oct 22, 2026
Yakima, US
demo
Robot-demo list: Amiga Flex + WEED-IT, Amiga Max + Interlink Sprayer, and Amiga Max Conventional Sprayer. Expo map also places Bonsai in vineyard and orchard demo zones.