- Markets
- Greenhouse tomatoes · Harvesting
- Regions served
- Germany
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Polybot.
Tübingen startup building a fully autonomous truss-tomato greenhouse harvester that learns end-to-end from human demonstrations. Address Maria-von-Linden-Str. 2, 72076 Tübingen. Team listed without titles: Martin Kiefel, Maike Kaufman, Claudio Michaelis, Sebastian Blaes. Advisors: Wieland Brendel, Georg Martius.
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Overview
At a glance.
People
The team.
Field relationships · Polybot
Customers & deployments.
Robot · Polybot Truss Tomato Harvester
Unnamed commercial customers
Pilot · Announced
truss tomato · greenhouse harvest
Status: completely integrated operational pilot planned for summer 2026; first systems to be delivered in early 2027.
Company funding · Polybot
Funding & investors.
Apr 17, 2025
Grant
Approx. €220.0K EUR
SPRIND awarded the Polybot research team an approximately €220,000 validation grant to prepare a harvesting-robot spin-out.
- SPRIND · Lead investor
Grant
Approx. €1.0M EUR
After validation, SPRIND provided a start-up grant of almost one million euros that supported Polybot’s November 2025 incorporation.
- SPRIND · Lead investor
Product family · 1 robot
The machines.
Categories · Polybot
Where they work.
Video
In motion.
More videos
- Watch on interestingengineering.comWatch on interestingengineering.com
How Polybot teaches machines to pick tomatoes by showing them the motion
Video · Interesting Engineering · truss tomato harvest / demonstration learning
Updates
News & developments.
Product news · Sep 25, 2026
Polybot — fully autonomous truss tomato harvester starting 2027 ↗
polybot.eu
Martin Kiefel · Co-founder
Site: lab Jan 2025, first pick May, full rows December, summer 2026 pilot, deliveries early 2027. Interesting Engineering names Martin Kiefel as co-founder.