Burro

Market context

Burro builds autonomous mobile robots for outdoor and mixed indoor-outdoor work, spanning agriculture, nurseries, site logistics and heavy industrial transport. Its Grande 44 expands the product line into higher-payload towing and site operations.

Facts

• Website: https://burro.ai/
• HQ: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• Segment: logistics automation
• Known funding rounds: 1

Funding

• 2024-01-09 - Series B - $24M - Burro raises $24M Series B for autonomous agricultural robots - source: technical.ly

Investors

• Catalyst Investors - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-01-09
• Cibus Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-01-09
• F-Prime Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-01-09
• S2G Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-01-09
• Toyota Ventures - Participant - Corporate / Cvc - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2024-01-09
• Translink Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-01-09

Events

• 2026-06-15 - Product Launch - Burro launches Grande 44 autonomous mobile robot for heavy industry - The 44 hp platform extends Burro’s outdoor autonomy into heavy industry and site logistics. Public launch materials target towing, transport, scouting, patrol and autonomous vegetation-management workflows. The product gives Burro a concrete offering for ware…
• 2025-09-29 - Deployment - Burro expands Petitti Grande 15 fleet from 10 to 25 robots - The expansion adds a named customer and fleet count to Burro's outdoor deployment record. Grande 15 robots support material movement in Petitti Family Farms operations. The deployment places Burro's technology into agricultural, food-production or outdoor aut…
• 2024-01-09 - Funding - Burro raises $24M Series B for autonomous agricultural robots - Burro raised a $24 million Series B round led by Catalyst Investors and Translink Capital. The funding supported growth of its autonomous robots for agriculture, nurseries and field logistics. Existing investors including S2G Ventures, Toyota Ventures, F-Prim…
• 2023-06-20 - Partnership - Burro partners with Pacific Ag Rentals for robot rentals - The partnership adds a commercial access channel for growers. Pacific Ag Rentals is the named rental partner for Burro robots. The partnership connects Burro to a customer, supplier or channel for commercial automation and autonomous-system workflows.

Team

• Charlie Andersen - CEO - He leads Burro’s outdoor autonomy platform for agricultural and industrial work.
• Vibhor Sood - Co-Founder & VP Engineering
• Kevin Leiter - Chief Operating Officer

Context tags

• Outdoor site logistics - Workflow - Burro Grande 44 targets heavy industrial transport and mixed indoor-outdoor site logistics.
• Autonomous mobile robot logistics - Workflow - Burro builds autonomous mobile robots for carrying, towing and patrol workflows.

Customers and deployments

• Active Robot Fleet - 25 Burro Grande 15 robots by year-end; 10 already deployed earlier in 2025 - 2025-09-29 - Petitti Family Farms - outdoor agricultural production - Burro and Petitti Family Farms expanded an operatin…

Articles

• Burro is scaling harvest-assist robots into an outdoor labor fleet - 2025-09-30 - A 25-robot Petitti deployment path, 300-plus commercial robot base, and Burro Grande payload step push autonomous mobility from nursery carts into pallet-scale outdoor work.