Facts

• Segment: Agriculture
• Country: Israel
• Founded: 2022
• Website: https://agripass.co/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Team
• Context tags
• Sources

Summary

AgriPass Robotics builds AI-guided robotic weeding systems for selective, non-chemical cultivation. Its RHIC machine identifies weeds plant by plant and removes them mechanically at the root, targeting farm workflows where growers need weed control without herbicides or heavy soil disturbance.

Market context

Agricultural robotics is accelerating due to labor shortages and regulatory pressure on chemical herbicides. AgriPass is positioning its RHIC platform as a precision weeding system capable of replacing large seasonal labor forces while supporting regenerative farming practices. Proprietary agricultural robotics platform (RHIC — Robot of Human-Inspired Cultivation).

• Capability: autonomous field robotics computer vision crop identification selective mechanical weeding precision agriculture workflows
• Strategic position: precision weeding for vegetable and specialty crops · regenerative farming · labor replacement in agriculture

Facts

• Website: https://agripass.co/
• HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel
• Founded: 2022
• Segment: Agriculture
• Known funding rounds: 1

Funding

• 2026-03-04 - Seed - $8M - AgriPass Robotics raises $7.5M seed round for agricultural robotics platform - source: techfundingnews.com

Investors

• E44 Climate Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-04
• E44 Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-04
• Harbor Venture Consulting - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-04

Mechanical weeding robot for specialty-crop farms

AgriPass Robotics is building RHIC as a self-propelled field machine that identifies crops and weeds, then removes weeds mechanically. The profile is less about broad farm autonomy and more about replacing chemical or manual weeding in crops where selectivity matters.

• Target environment: Vegetable fields, specialty crops, regenerative farms, organic production systems and growers under pressure to reduce herbicide use or seasonal hand-weeding labor.
• Deployment model: Purpose-built agricultural robot model centered on RHIC hardware, field perception, mechanical cultivation and farm partnerships that validate performance crop by crop.
• Customer context: Growers, agronomy teams, organic farms, specialty-crop producers and agriculture programs balancing labor cost, weed pressure and chemical reduction.
• Workflow context: Crop recognition, weed detection, machine navigation between plants, selective cultivation, field monitoring and reduced herbicide passes.
• Commercial maturity: Early focused robotics company with a narrow wedge around selective mechanical weeding.
• Market position: Focused agtech challenger for farms that need chemical-free weed control.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on crop compatibility, weeding precision, field reliability, seasonal utilization, service support and farm-level payback.
• Adjacent context: Mechanical weeding, specialty-crop robotics, regenerative agriculture, machine vision and non-chemical weed control.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-03-04 - Funding - AgriPass Robotics raises $7.5M seed round for agricultural robotics platform - AgriPass Robotics raises $7.5M seed round for agricultural robotics platform.

Team

• Liron Cohen-Yanay - CEO
• Sam Dugan - Co-founder & CTO

Context tags

• Fruit-picking agriculture robotics - Peer Group
• Orchard harvesting robotics - Peer Group
• Crop harvesting automation - Capability
• Agriculture field operations - Customer Environment