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About Nature Robots

Nature Robots is a German deep-tech company that sells autonomy as software: its Farming Autonomy Operating System (FAOS) gives agricultural machines the navigation, perception and monitoring functions they need to work autonomously, so that OEMs can add autonomous capability to their own tractors and implements without building a full autonomy stack in-house. The platform targets exactly the environments where autonomy is hardest — large conventional fields, vegetable growing, viticulture and orchards, specialty crops, agri-photovoltaics and agroforestry — and is aimed at regenerative farming with lighter machinery and less soil compaction. The company also develops its own small field robots, the Lero series, as reference platforms for the software.

Founded in January 2022 as a spin-off of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Nature Robots sits in the Agrotech Valley around Osnabrück, near machinery makers such as Amazone, Claas, Grimme and Krone, develops and simulates in Osnabrück, and tests on real crops at its fenced AI Market Garden site in Arenshorst, where laser weeding and selective hoeing are among the applications trialled; a Munich location followed in 2026. Announced support includes a €4 million seed round closed in March 2026 and EIC Accelerator funding. For machinery partners, Nature Robots is a route to autonomous product lines built on research-grade AI rather than in-house development.

Products & services

• Farming Autonomy Operating System (FAOS) — modular autonomy software platform for agricultural machinery (navigation, perception and monitoring AI)
• Lero series of small autonomous field robots used as reference and deployment platforms
• Autonomy modules and integration support for OEM machines, including laser weeding and selective hoeing applications
• Robot testing and development services at the AI Market Garden test site in Arenshorst

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