Ecorobotix

Ecorobotix is a Swiss agri-tech company founded in 2014 and headquartered in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland. It builds autonomous, solar-powered robots that apply crop protection products at the individual plant level, helping commercial vegetable and row crop farms cut herbicide and pesticide use.

Its flagship product, the ARA UHP sprayer, uses “Plant-by-Plant AI” computer vision to distinguish weeds from crops in real time and dose treatment only where needed, reportedly cutting plant protection product use by up to 95 percent. The robot has been used on crops such as beans, onions, carrots, and chicory, with deployments including over 100 hectares of beans treated in a single season.

1. Plant-by-Plant AI: computer vision identifies individual weeds and crop plants in real time.

2. Ultra-high precision spraying: doses herbicide only on detected weeds, not whole fields.

3. Autonomous operation: solar-assisted robot works fields with minimal supervision.

4. Chemical reduction: cuts plant protection product use by up to 95 percent per pass.

5. Multi-crop support: works across vegetables such as onions, carrots, and beans.

6. Field data logging: records weed pressure and treatment maps for each pass.