Agtech · Robotics · Early stage

An autonomous robot that harvests leaf crops one ripe leaf at a time

Leaf-by-leaf harvesting is still almost entirely done by hand, and farms are running out of workers to do it. Instead of cutting the whole plant, this robot drives between the rows, finds only the leaves that are ripe, and removes them gently with a force-controlled soft stripping head. Our first pilot crop is Oriental-type leaf harvesting in Türkiye; the platform can be adapted to other crops that are harvested leaf by leaf.

How it works

Real-time perception and motion control run on the robot. Claude does the engineering and data work around it:

• →Firmware and test-automation development for the motor and force controllers
• →QA and annotation workflows for the field image dataset (8–15k expert-labeled leaves)
• →Turning per-plant harvest logs (force, cycle time, success / skip) into reports for farmers
• →An operator and service assistant that explains alarms and guides maintenance in the field

Status & roadmap

We are a pre-incorporation team of hardware and embedded engineers. The system architecture, mechanical and power subsystem selection and safety concept are done; we are now building the P0 harvesting-head test bench. Each stage only starts once the previous gate is passed.