Bonsai Robotics

Bonsai Robotics develops AI-first, vision-based autonomy that makes off-road equipment smarter, safer, and more productive.

[Bonsai Robotics @bonsairobotics]

I pity the fool who thought those were just ordinary tractors! 🚜 What does Mr. T have in common with the autonomous OMC AR-500 powered by Bonsai Intelligence?

Serious horsepower. A mind of its own. And a legendary mohawk.
#bonsairobotics #omc

[Bonsai Robotics @bonsairobotics]

Congrats to MRC Farm Robotics, high school winners of the Amiga Innovation Award for their autonomous foliar feeding robot!

See them at the Cal Youth Ag Expo in Tulare with @ucanr, @California4H & @NationalFFA. 2027 Farm Robotics Challenge registration opens soon! #FRC2026

[Bonsai Robotics @bonsairobotics]

📖 Read Ugur's recent blog post to dive deeper into the vision: https://t.co/gWWxZTk9JF

[Bonsai Robotics @bonsairobotics]

Meet @bonsairobotics CTO & Co-Founder Ugur Oezdemir.

After pioneering autonomous systems at Mercedes-Benz, VW, and Toyota, Ugur realized physical AI’s real frontier isn't paved roads, it’s unstructured, real-world fields.

Now he's building the foundation for off-road autonomy.

[Bonsai Robotics @bonsairobotics]

We held Northwest demos this week with the Amiga Max spraying an apple block in Sunnyside, WA. Growers pointed to the affordability, modular design, and connectivity workaround as standouts. A big thank you to our partner @goodfruitgrower!

https://t.co/Rxwzt2iCDE

[Bonsai Robotics @bonsairobotics]

Want a demo? DM us!

[Bonsai Robotics @bonsairobotics]

Wrapped a busy month with strawberry growers in CA's Central Valley. Check out the debut of our a fully electric Amiga Max with a conventional sprayer. Tailored to help them reduce input and fuel costs and redirect labor to do higher value tasks.

#AgTech #BonsaiRobotics #AI

[Bonsai Robotics @bonsairobotics]

@ontargetspray Come see electrostatic and conventional spraying on the Amiga Max at the The Cal Poly Strawberry Center Tomorrow!

[Bonsai Robotics @bonsairobotics]

Between labor shortages and tight windows, keeping crops protected is a constant battle.

That’s why we’re putting the Amiga Max to work with @ontargetspray. Built to navigate bedded crops without soil compaction, it delivers autonomous, repeatable spray coverage.

#AgTech

[John Macdonald @jnmacdnld]

these orchards are not real, they were generated by the bonsai world model. why are we betting on a world model?

robotaxi companies can create a detailed HD map and digital twin of a city like San Francisco and use it to train their models on all kinds of diverse scenarios. this is expensive, but you can split the cost across many customers all served by that map. in agriculture, where every customer has their own farm, and therefore their own map, this approach breaks completely. it doesn’t scale at all. and,
unlike robotaxis, there is no easy access to a realistic test environment like public roads, so testing becomes a huge bottleneck. I believe this has held back robotics in agriculture for many years, killing many promising agtech startups.

all of this changes with the bonsai world model. by training on years of high-quality real world data, we are starting to be able to generate diverse, realistic and geometrically consistent 3D farm environments without a painstaking 3D reconstruction process that doesn’t scale.

more to come soon! we are just getting started 😉

[Bonsai Robotics @bonsairobotics]

Check out a demo of the new narrow OMC AR-500 equipped with Bonsai Intelligence spraying autonomously in citrus at 1.6M width. Excited to offer citrus growers a narrow-track platform purpose-built for them.

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#BonsaiRobotics #CitrusFarming #AgTech #OffRoadAutonomy #PrecisionAg

[Bonsai Robotics @bonsairobotics]

Great day in Salinas demoing the autonomous Amiga Max & Amiga Flex for local strawberry growers. 🍓

Paired with an @ontargetspray electrostatic sprayer, it cuts chemical use up to 80% and slashes spray hours by 50%. Thanks @reservoirfarms

#AgTech #SalinasAg #FarmAutomation

[AUTONOMOUS - July 16th @autonomousevent]

Today's the day. #AUTONOMOUS2026 arrives in San Francisco. Thank you to our sponsors first for helping us create the room that robotics & physical AI didn't yet have.

@moonlake @daftengine @FortRobotics @antiochrobotics Quarter20 @anyscalecompute & @CrusoeAI

If you're attending, our post-event happy our is being hosted by Moonlake:

Register here ➔ https://t.co/1IVCu5a7Qf

[Bonsai Robotics @bonsairobotics]

Thanks for hosting such an amazing event @reservoirfarms!

[Bonsai Robotics @bonsairobotics]

The Amiga Max diesel-hybrid runs full spray shifts at a third of the labor cost.
• Cuts chemical waste
• Auto-logs every acre
• 1 operator manages multiple blocks via the app.

Check out the lineup: https://t.co/bCVVZfPt1v
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#AgTech #BonsaiRobotics #WineIndustry

[Robert Scoble @Scobleizer]

Autonomous farming at @reservoirfarms in Salinas.

When I got here joined a bunch of farmers from Florida who were visiting.

But during the talks @bonsairobotics caught my attention.

One of the first to use world models to drive autonomous farm equipment.

Here's their CEO, Tyler Niday, talking to me about what's going on in farming around the world. And of course we talk about world models. My favorite topic lately.

They have robots farming in Australia and here in America in a variety of places.

He ran autonomous tractors for @JohnDeere for years.

Reservoir Farms is an incubator—think of it like Y Combinator or Founders Inc., but for people who are making autonomous, AI-driven tractors and other farm equipment. It's a remarkable place. Worth telling anyone in farming about.

@bernsteind, who runs it, used to work at Google in high tech and got the bug to help startups hit the farming market. He has a fairly big plot of land to do all sorts of testing, demos, and development work here in Salinas, with about 40 acres of a variety of different crops. That is something you can't do in Silicon Valley anymore. It takes me back to my childhood when Silicon Valley used to be all farms.

It was a lot of fun hanging out with the farmers. They'll be doing some events and hackathons down here. If you're from Silicon Valley, it's only an hour south, and I highly recommend coming down to see what's going on.

The AI part of farming is very similar to building an autonomous car or truck, so the kinds of jobs are very similar. The market is just very different, and the kinds of things a robot needs to figure out are different. You might be picking apples or spraying crops. You don't have pedestrian traffic, maybe, but you have other kinds of things you need to train and model on to work around.

Anyways, I had a beautiful day hanging out here.

[Bonsai Robotics @bonsairobotics]

While talking to Florida fruit and veg farmers today @reservoirfarms, we get time with the legendary @Scobleizer. A great day indeed.

[Robert Scoble @Scobleizer]

Autonomous farming at @reservoirfarms in Salinas.

When I got here joined a bunch of farmers from Florida who were visiting.

But during the talks @bonsairobotics caught my attention.

One of the first to use world models to drive autonomous farm equipment.

Here's their CEO, Tyler Niday, talking to me about what's going on in farming around the world. And of course we talk about world models. My favorite topic lately.

They have robots farming in Australia and here in America in a variety of places.

He ran autonomous tractors for @JohnDeere for years.

Reservoir Farms is an incubator—think of it like Y Combinator or Founders Inc., but for people who are making autonomous, AI-driven tractors and other farm equipment. It's a remarkable place. Worth telling anyone in farming about.

@bernsteind, who runs it, used to work at Google in high tech and got the bug to help startups hit the farming market. He has a fairly big plot of land to do all sorts of testing, demos, and development work here in Salinas, with about 40 acres of a variety of different crops. That is something you can't do in Silicon Valley anymore. It takes me back to my childhood when Silicon Valley used to be all farms.

It was a lot of fun hanging out with the farmers. They'll be doing some events and hackathons down here. If you're from Silicon Valley, it's only an hour south, and I highly recommend coming down to see what's going on.

The AI part of farming is very similar to building an autonomous car or truck, so the kinds of jobs are very similar. The market is just very different, and the kinds of things a robot needs to figure out are different. You might be picking apples or spraying crops. You don't have pedestrian traffic, maybe, but you have other kinds of things you need to train and model on to work around.

Anyways, I had a beautiful day hanging out here.

[Bonsai Robotics @bonsairobotics]

Come see @jnmacdnld at @autonomousevent this Thursday.

[Bonsai Robotics @bonsairobotics]

Most ag autonomy is either a narrow tool built for one job, or flashy tech that's never touched a real field. Bonsai trains on real deployment data, with every field feeding back into the system — so it keeps getting sharper on your actual conditions.

[Bonsai Robotics @bonsairobotics]

@DarenHeidgerken @Jason We love what L5 is doing on our Amiga platform.
https://t.co/LBpFzJ3lX0