Autonomous solar-powered robot for precision weeding and crop monitoring in organic farming
Agricultural robotics from Aigen.
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Company profile
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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Co-Founder and CEO
Co-Founder and CTO
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Field relationships · Aigen
Robot · Aigen Element
Customer · Active · Grower / farm · US
Central Valley, California
cotton · mechanical weeding
Fleets available to growers for the 2027 season.
Robot · Aigen Element
Partner · Active · Other · DE
sugar beet
Fleets available to growers for the 2027 season.
Robot · Aigen Element
Trial · Active · Research / university · US
North Dakota
sugar beet
Fleets available to growers for the 2027 season.
Robot · Aigen Element
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
Pilot · Active
Red River Valley, USA
sugar beet
Fleets available to growers for the 2027 season.
Robot · Aigen Element Gen 2 X4
Customer · Announced
row crops including sugar beet
Fleets available to growers for the 2027 season.
Company funding · Aigen
Nov 9, 2023
$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
$4.0M USD
Aigen announced a $4 million seed round led by NEA for its solar-powered agriculture robotics platform.
Appearances
Product · Aigen Element
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
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
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.
Updates
Product news · Oct 24, 2026
At FIRA USA 2026 in Yakima, Aigen Co-Founder and CEO Kenny Lee said Element uses a mechanical hoe and AI to uproot herbicide-resistant weeds. He said compute was upgraded and a fourth arm lets the robot run four arms through the season without swapping batteries. The clip is on the Conservation Ag Update episode hosted by No-Till Farmer.
Product news · Oct 6, 2026
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.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.
Podcasts
Podcast · Sep 30, 2026
Culture Talks / Lorne Rubis
Speaker Kenny Lee, co-founder and CEO of Aigen; Culture Talks episode page.
Podcast · Jul 28, 2026
KQLX / AgNews890
Speaker Kenny Lee, Co-Founder and CEO of Aigen; posted 2026-07-28.
Podcast · Mar 2, 2026
Scaling Robotics
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 · Oct 22, 2024
Green New Perspective Spotlight / NPWS
Speaker: Kenny Lee, co-founder and CEO of Aigen. Host: Dunja Jovanovic.
Podcast · Apr 15, 2024
Built for Earth
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
Talk · Oct 24, 2026
Conservation Ag Update / No-Till Farmer
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..
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