- Markets
- Oil palm · Orchard / vineyard spray kits · Phenotyping
- Regions served
- United States · Malaysia · Indonesia
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EarthSense.
EarthSense, Inc. was founded in 2016 at the University of Illinois Research Park. TerraMax (750 kg all-electric 4WD payload robot for oil-palm FaaS, v3 in field since 2024), SmartSpread, SmartSpray, TerraSentia phenotyping, TerraPreta, and TerraSentia+. No RTK GPS; Terra AI WayFAST visual-inertial navigation.
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Overview
At a glance.
People
The team.
Company funding · EarthSense
Funding & investors.
Apr 13, 2020
Grant
EarthSense won NSF STTR Phase II funding to accelerate TerraSentia autonomy and edge analytics for large-scale deployment.
- National Science Foundation · Lead investor
Jun 1, 2019
Seed
$1.0M USD
EarthSense closed a $1 million SAFE seed led by Innova Memphis to commercialize the TerraSentia phenotyping platform.
- Innova Memphis · Lead investor
- Fox Ventures
- Illinois Ventures
- The Syndicate Fund
Jun 29, 2018
Grant
EarthSense received an NSF SBIR Phase I award to demonstrate ultracompact autonomous robots for field data collection.
- National Science Foundation · Lead investor
Product family · 1 robot
The machines.
Categories · EarthSense