Product profile
Flying Autonomous Robots
Flying Autonomous Robots are Tevel’s tethered aerial fruit-harvesting robots for orchards. AI, computer vision and control algorithms guide the robots into...
Facts
- Company
- Tevel
- Product type
- agriculture_robot
- Status
- field_deployment
- Primary capability
- autonomous orchard fruit harvesting
- Website
- https://www.tevel-tech.com/technology/
About Flying Autonomous Robots
Tevel's Flying Autonomous Robots are tethered aerial systems for harvesting fruit in orchards. Computer vision identifies fruit and ripeness, while a picking arm collects items and records data including quantity, size, weight, timestamp and condition.
Multiple flying units operate from a ground platform that supplies power and manages the workflow. Commercial performance depends on fruit variety, canopy structure, weather and orchard preparation.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Harvesting robot
Core: Aerial fruit picker
Function: Pick crops
Audience: Orchards
Specifications
- core_functions
- Quantity, size, weight, timestamp, ripeness and disease data for each picked fruit
- payload_class
- Designed to harvest fruit from about 50 g to 700 g
- power_source
- Tethered aerial robot
- programming_model
- AI, machine learning, computer vision, guidance and control algorithms
Operations
- Environment
- commercial orchards
- Primary user
- fruit growers, harvest operators
- Role
- autonomous fruit harvesting, crop data collection
- Interaction model
- autonomous picking with fleet supervision
- Mobility class
- tethered aerial manipulator
- Product detail
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Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Tevel secures $18M Series C funding for flying robot harvesters — 2026-03-26
- Tevel partners with Unifrutti and expands to South America — 2023-05-29
- Tevel debuts Alpha-Bot harvesting system at World Ag Expo and wins Top-10 New Product recognition — 2023-02-14
- Tevel is named finalist for the 2022 Atlas Award — 2022-11-14
- Tevel partners with HMC Farms to pilot autonomous fruit harvesting in California — 2022-08-16
- Tevel begins fully automated robotic harvesting in Europe — 2022-04-19
- Tevel raises $20M Series B for flying autonomous fruit-picking robots — 2021-01-26