Verdant Robotics has closed a USD46.5m Series A fundraising round to scale its sophisticated robotic technology and drive broad adoption of its regenerative and precision agriculture solutions.

Its commercial Robotics-As-A-Service (RaaS) is in high demand, serving a wide range of specialty crops on hundreds of hectares and with orders pending for thousands more. With this funding, the company will be able to rapidly scale its fleet while also developing next-generation technologies that will significantly boost RaaS efficiency.

This multi-action, autonomous platform, is the only ag robot on the market that can weed, fertilize, and treat plants for pests and diseases all while gathering data on each plant, allowing farmers to make important decisions in real time.

The company’s mission has always been to work alongside farmers to solve their biggest future challenge – a lack of farm labor – while also ensuring that its robotic solution enables more growers to access regenerative and precision practices that support soil health, water conservation, carbon sequestration, and nutrient-dense crops.

Its combination of automation, deep learning, machine vision, and sub-millimeter accuracy, built by a world-class team of roboticists, has drawn industry interest for its capacity to handle many agricultural problems.

“Verdant’s ultra-precision spraying platform is here today – adding new value while doing more with less. Thanks to the ongoing support from our investors, growers can thrive as we deploy this transformative technology together. At Verdant, we believe that an outsized opportunity requires an oversized effort that only robotics can deliver for agriculture,” Gabe Sibley, Ph.D., co-founder and CEO of Verdant Robotics, mentioned.

To assist farmers where they need it most, Verdant’s computational robotic and autonomous software system combines decades of advances in science, including computer vision, artificial intelligence, robotics, GPS-denied navigation, chemistry, and soil and plant sciences. Verdant’s multi-action implement, which can be mounted to any tractor of choice, also provides the added advantages of cutting-edge computation and data analytics for more informed agronomics and on-farm decision-making.

Verdant has successfully scaled its robot-as-a-service offering to serve more specialized crops, including those designed in 30-, 40-, 60-, and 80-inch bed widths, to hasten the positive impact that robotics can have on food production.