TopFarmRobots · Farm robots, weekly · Week of September 28, 2026
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Each week we pull three machines from the catalog, look closely at one company, and round up recent farm-robotics news with links to the sources.
This week leans toward vegetable harvest, with two harvesters working out of Reservoir Farms in Salinas, California. Thanks for reading.
New on TopFarmRobots
Beagle Technology V100 Harvester
An AI "See and Cut" multi-row vegetable harvester that cuts each plant at the stem; official crops are romaine, iceberg, celery, napa cabbage and bok choy, and Beagle is in the initial Reservoir Farms – Salinas cohort.
TOR Precision Laser Weeder
An autonomous GPS-RTK laser weeder from Dutch company Trabotyx, with up to 6 lasers and up to 10 hours of battery; Future Farming reported that at most 10 machines would be available for the 2026 season.
Robotic Perception AI Pruner
An autonomous electric pruning arm for orchards and vineyards from Israel's Robotic Perception; the company says it can run 24/7 and "matches 4 workers."
Company spotlight: Sami Robotics
Sami Robotics is a Québec startup based in Varennes, founded in 2023. Its SAMI platform harvests selectively with 12 to 18 robotic arms, and the company says each arm picks a ripe vegetable in under three seconds. Broccoli is the application available today, and the company says SAMI harvested broccoli commercially in Québec in 2025.
The harvester is now at Reservoir Farms' Salinas site, where it is "validating harvest in iceberg, romaine, and brassicas, with growers giving feedback every day," according to Danny Bernstein of Reservoir (Sep 27). CEO and co-founder Pascal Labrecque told Future Farming that harvesting is the only active focus for now.
In the news
Aigen launches Element Gen 2 X4. A four-armed, fully solar-powered weeding robot that pulls weeds mechanically in and between rows; fleets are available for the 2027 season (Sep 18). Sugar Producer · On TopFarmRobots
Agrobot introduces the Kiko ACU-20. A compact electric platform for spraying and night-time UV-C treatments in raspberry, blackberry and blueberry rows that runs without a pre-loaded map or GPS corrections (Sep 16). To be Berry · On TopFarmRobots
KONNEXIO wins $267,000 from CAAIN. The Ontario startup will build an AI-guided strawberry-thinning module for its agroTRAX UV-C rover, using cameras, AI-controlled micro-cutters and lasers from 2027 (Sep 21). The Grower
Coming up
FIRA USA 2026 · Oct 20–22
The fifth FIRA USA moves to the Central Washington State Fairgrounds in Yakima, Washington. The organizers list 2,500+ attendees, 80+ exhibitors and 40+ robots and agtech solutions.
All upcoming events · Event site
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