What Dogtooth does

Dogtooth Technologies Limited is a Cambridge-area (Melbourn, Royston, UK) agricultural robotics company that develops and manufactures autonomous strawberry harvesting robots for commercial fruit growers operating glasshouse and polytunnel environments. Founded in 2016, the company has progressed through five hardware generations to a commercially available fifth-generation platform that combines computer vision, machine learning, and real-time 3D plant geometry modeling (using 3D Gaussian Splatting) to autonomously navigate crop rows, locate and pick ripe fruit, and grade every berry via a patented 360-degree inspection system before placing it directly into punnets. The system is supported by a cloud-based web portal providing fleet management, 7-14 day yield forecasting, and remote adjustment of ripeness and grading settings.

The company's product portfolio centres on the Gen 5 strawberry harvesting robot (up to 200kg/day, 24-hour multi-shift operation including night picking) complemented by a Yield Forecast add-on module and an Early Access Program. Revenue is generated primarily through direct enterprise hardware sales on multi-year contracts, with pricing not publicly disclosed; secondary software and data services flow through the cloud-based fleet management portal. Distribution has historically been direct-to-grower in the UK and Australia, with the November 2025 Fertima partnership extending channel reach into Türkiye, Central Asia, and the Middle East.

Dogtooth sells to large commercial strawberry growers facing acute seasonal labour shortages, with named enterprise customers including Hugh Lowe Farms and Dyson Farming (which deployed 20 robots in a Lincolnshire glasshouse). The company is privately held, backed by FII Institute among others, and led by a technically credentialed team that includes chairman Jorge Heraud (co-founder of Blue River Technology, acquired by John Deere in 2017), CEO Dr Duncan Robertson (Cambridge PhD in computer vision), and CSO Mat Cook (MacRobert Award winner from the Microsoft Kinect team). The company states it is manufacturing hundreds of robots per year across ten customer sites over ten commercial seasons.

Name

Dogtooth

Legal name

Dogtooth Technologies Limited

Website

https://dogtooth.tech

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Dogtooth Technologies is a UK-based agricultural robotics company that manufactures autonomous strawberry harvesting robots using computer vision and machine learning, selling directly to commercial glasshouse and polytunnel growers in the UK, Australia, and expanding into Türkiye, Central Asia, and the Middle East.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Agricultural Robotics

NAICS

Farm Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing (333111)

SIC

Farm Machinery & Equipment (3523)

akta.pro primary industry

Robotic Harvesting & Picking Systems (Fruit/Vegetable harvest robots) (AFAAAGAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Robotics & Autonomous Field Operations (Weeding, Spraying, Harvest Assist, Autonomous Tractors) (AFAGALAJ), Agricultural & Field Robotics (HDAAAIAD)

Keywords

• Agricultural robotics
• Autonomous fruit harvesting
• Strawberry picking robots
• Computer vision agriculture
• Greenhouse automation

Headquarters

HQ city

Royston

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Strawberry Harvesting Robot Sales: Fifth generation robotic harvesting units are sold directly to commercial growers. Robots work with standard tabletop infrastructure in glasshouse and polytunnel environments. Customers can buy robots directly via the company's order page.
2. Yield Forecasting Product: Mobile Crop Condition Monitoring Unit that attaches to existing harvest trolleys, providing 7-14 day yield forecasts. Sold as a product to growers seeking actionable yield insight.
3. Data and Software Services: Cloud-based web portal and analytics provide real-time insight into crop conditions, yield forecasts, and defect rates, forming part of the product ecosystem for robot fleet management.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Dogtooth Technologies designs, manufactures, and sells autonomous strawberry harvesting robots for commercial fruit growers operating glasshouses and polytunnels. Its fifth-generation robots navigate crop rows, pick ripe berries, inspect each fruit with on-board 360-degree imaging, and place them directly into punnets graded to supermarket criteria. The company also offers a Yield Forecast product (mobile crop monitoring unit with 7-14 day yield predictions) and a cloud-based web portal for fleet management.

Product overview

Dogtooth Technologies offers a portfolio of agricultural robotics products centered on its Fifth Generation Strawberry Harvesting Robot, an autonomous system that navigates glasshouse and polytunnel environments to pick, inspect, and grade strawberries. The product portfolio includes the core Strawberry Harvesting Robot, the Yield Forecast add-on module for crop condition monitoring and 7-14 day yield predictions, and an Early Access Program for customer engagement and site assessment. All products share a cloud-based web portal for fleet management, real-time yield and defect monitoring, and remote adjustment of ripeness and grading settings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Fifth Generation Strawberry Harvesting Robot Fifth generation autonomous strawberry harvesting robot that navigates crop rows in glasshouses and polytunnels, locates and picks ripe fruit, performs on-board quality inspection using 360-degree imaging, and places berries directly into punnets according to supermarket criteria. Designed for commercial fruit growers facing seasonal labour shortages.
• Yield Forecast Product Mobile Crop Condition Monitoring Unit that attaches to harvest trolleys and provides 7-14 day yield forecasts using machine learning trained on 16 seasons of strawberry data. Helps commercial growers make informed decisions about resources, harvest intervals, and order fulfillment.
• Early Access Program Customer engagement program offering site surveys for robotic harvesting compatibility assessment, demo day invitations, and latest news updates for prospective customers worldwide considering commercial robot purchases.

Quantifiable outcome

• 1 million strawberries picked in a single season
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability7 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• FertimacoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 November 2025Fertima, a leading supplier of agricultural automation equipment in the region, was appointed as Dogtooth's official distributor of dexterous harvesting robots across Türkiye, Central Asia, and the Middle East. The partnership was announced at the GROWTECH Antalya trade show in November 2025. This marks Dogtooth's first distributor partnership, expanding the company's global reach and accelerating adoption of its technology in new regions.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Advanced Farm Technologies: US-based developer of autonomous strawberry and apple harvesting robots. Most direct competitor to Dogtooth in autonomous berry picking, addressing the same labour-shortage pain point for commercial growers with computer-vision-guided robotic platforms.
• Agrobot: Spain-based company that has built the E-Series strawberry harvesting robot using robotic arms and machine vision. Competes with Dogtooth in the same niche of autonomous strawberry picking for controlled-environment growers.
• Octinion: Belgian robotics company that developed the Rubion strawberry-picking robot. Direct competitor in autonomous soft-fruit harvesting with similar vision-driven picking architectures and grower-targeted commercial model.
• Fieldwork Robotics: UK-based spin-out developing autonomous raspberry and tomato harvesting robots. Closely comparable as a UK-headquartered soft-fruit harvesting robotics startup targeting similar CEA growers with dexterous manipulation.
• Tortuga AgTech: US company building robots for strawberry harvesting and other nursery tasks. Comparable as a venture-backed startup commercialising autonomous robots specifically for the strawberry growing industry.
• Traptic: California-based startup developing strawberry-picking robots using vision-guided robotic arms. Direct competitor in autonomous strawberry harvesting with overlapping target customers among California growers.

Broad incumbents

• Blue River Technology: John Deere-owned agricultural robotics platform, originally known for the See & Spray weeding robot. Comparable as the canonical example of an agri-robotics company acquired by a major OEM, and Dogtooth chairman Jorge Heraud co-founded Blue River before leading Deere's Automation and Autonomy division.

Emerging players

• Naio Technologies: French agricultural robotics company producing weeding and hoeing robots for specialty crops. Comparable as a European specialist agricultural robotics startup with overlapping autonomy and computer-vision technology, though focused on weeding rather than harvesting.
• Small Robot Company: UK-based precision agriculture robotics startup offering per-plant weeding and crop monitoring services. Comparable as a UK-headquartered agri-robotics peer addressing similar commercial growers with vision-driven autonomous field robots.
• Verdant Robotics: US specialty-crop robotics startup combining computer vision with robotic application of inputs and harvesting. Comparable in targeting high-value specialty crop growers with AI-driven robotic systems, with overlapping computer-vision and autonomy stack.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles16 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds8 records

Investors10 records

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M&A

Investments

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