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Polybot

Fully autonomous truss tomato harvester starting 2027

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Fast!

Harvests gently.

Reliable.

Our Vision

Monocultures are efficient but unsustainable: degrading biodiversity, losing harvests to climate extremes. The alternatives are diverse, resilient polycultures, but in order to be economical, they need automation as dexterous as humans. Our goal: future-proofing humanity's food production.

Our Approach

We start with high-value crops in greenhouses, where labor costs are high and labor is hard to find. Our robots learn harvesting end-to-end from humans, a radically data-driven approach that adapts fast to new tasks and new crops in the greenhouse and beyond. From there toward resilient, diversified farming.

Our Status

Our lab development started in January 2025, autonomously picked our first tomato in a greenhouse in May, and harvested full rows reliably in December. We work closely with growers and are on course to run a completely integrated operational pilot in summer 2026 and to deliver the first systems in early 2027.

Meet the Team

Martin Kiefel

Martin Kiefel

Maike Kaufman

Maike Kaufman

Claudio Michaelis

Claudio Michaelis

Sebastian Blaes

Sebastian Blaes

Elias Atahi

Elias Atahi

Our Advisors

Wieland Brendel

Wieland Brendel

Georg Martius

Georg Martius

Paul Hofmann

Paul Hofmann

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