AI.Land

What AI.Land does

AI.Land (legally Landhouz GmbH) is a German agricultural robotics company founded in 2020 by Dr.-Ing. Josef Franko in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, building autonomous field robotics to address labour shortages, long vegetable supply chains and post-harvest losses in European vegetable production.

The company operates two core hardware platforms. DAVEGI is a stationary, 100% solar-powered AgriPV traverse system spanning a 2,500 m² circular field that autonomously cultivates, monitors, harvests and in-field packs up to 100,000 vegetable plants per year across four cycles, with integrated battery storage and surplus energy feed-in. ETAROB is a mobile multi-purpose agricultural robot supporting spot-farming across mixed crops with interchangeable tools for soil preparation, sowing, precision irrigation, fertilisation, plant monitoring and harvesting. Both run on an Odoo/ROS-based farm management ERP (Open Research Base) that links per-plant sensor data to robotic task execution and a direct-to-consumer web shop. The AI layer consists of proprietary Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models trained via human teleoperation in virtual reality, applied to computer-vision-based plant recognition and embodied robotic manipulation.

Commercially, AI.Land combines capital-goods hardware sales (DAVEGI and ETAROB systems sold to farmers, municipalities and public institutions via direct inquiry, pricing not publicly disclosed) with a direct-to-consumer Field2Fork vegetable box channel priced at €10–€25 per box at a stated capacity of 100 boxes per day across 250 working days. Funding to date is non-dilutive, sourced from DBU, ERDF/BLE, NRW.Bank, Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank and Ziel2.NRW, with no disclosed equity rounds. Strategic R&D partnerships include DFKI, Othmerding Maschinenbau, and the MASKOR Institute at Aachen University of Applied Sciences.

Name

AI.Land

Legal name

Landhouz GmbH

Website

https://a-i.land

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

AI.Land (Landhouz GmbH) is a German agricultural robotics company that builds autonomous field robots (DAVEGI, ETAROB) with embodied AI for vegetable cultivation, selling hardware to farmers and municipalities and operating a direct farm-to-consumer vegetable box model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Agricultural robotics

NAICS

Farm Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing (333111), Agricultural Implement Manufacturing (33311)

SIC

Farm Machinery & Equipment (3523), Agricultural Services (700)

akta.pro primary industry

Agricultural & Field Robotics (HDAAAIAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Robotic Harvesting & Picking Systems (Fruit/Vegetable harvest robots) (AFAAAGAD), Robotic Weeding & Mechanical Cultivation Systems (AFAAAGAB), Robotics & Autonomous Field Operations (Weeding, Spraying, Harvest Assist, Autonomous Tractors) (AFAGALAJ), Robotic Implements, End-Effectors & Tooling (Grippers, cutters, weeding tools, smart implements) (AFAAAGAI), Agricultural UAV/UGV Autonomy Platforms (Navigation, mission planning, fleet autonomy) (AFAAAGAF)

Keywords

• Agricultural robotics
• Autonomous field robots
• Precision agriculture systems
• Vegetable harvesting automation
• Embodied AI farming

Headquarters

HQ city

Kempen

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. DAVEGI Field Robotics System Sales: Sale of the DAVEGI fully autonomous field robotics system to farmers, local authorities, and institutions. The system transforms 2,500 m² into a high-yield vegetable farm with 100,000 plants per year across 4 cultivation cycles.
2. ETAROB Agricultural Robot Sales: Sale of the ETAROB multi-purpose agricultural robot for vegetable cultivation, supporting all steps from soil preparation to harvesting with modular interchangeable tools.
3. Direct Vegetable Box Sales (Field2Fork): DAVEGI produces freshly assembled vegetable boxes directly in the field — 75% standardised and 25% mixed vegetable boxes — sold at €10–€25 per box, 100 boxes per day across 250 working days. Short supply chain from field to consumer with no cold chain required.
4. Modular Harvesting and Tool Add-ons: Modular vegetable harvesting module and specialised cultivation tools (precision irrigation, fertilisation, plant monitoring, tillage) sold as add-ons for ETAROB and DAVEGI platforms.
5. Professional Services & Implementation: Implementation, training, and support services for deploying autonomous agricultural systems on farms, likely involving on-site setup and operator training.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

AI.Land designs, manufactures and sells autonomous agricultural robotics systems for vegetable cultivation. Its flagship product, DAVEGI, is a fully autonomous, solar-powered field robotics system on a rotating traverse platform that sows, cultivates, harvests and packs vegetables directly in the field, supported by the ETAROB multi-purpose agricultural robot and modular tools (including the Vegetable Harvesting Module, VHM). The company also operates a direct farm-to-consumer vegetable box sales model (Field2Fork) from its own production.

Product overview

AI.Land offers a portfolio of agricultural robotics products. The core products are DAVEGI (a fully autonomous field robotics system with traverse platform for vegetable cultivation, harvesting, and on-field packaging) and ETAROB (a multi-purpose agricultural robot using spot farming methodology). Both are supported by modular add-ons including the Vegetable Harvest Module (VHM) for automated harvesting, a plant monitoring suite for sensor-based growth tracking, precision irrigation/fertilisation tools, and tillage tools. All products incorporate embodied AI with computer vision for plant recognition and operate across the full cultivation cycle from soil preparation to harvesting.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• DAVEGI: World's first fully autonomous agricultural system that brings fresh vegetables directly from the field to the consumer. An intelligent field robotics system with precise sensor technology and robotics for individual plant recognition, care, and harvesting.
• ETAROB
• VHM (Vegetable Harvesting Module)

Products and services

• DAVEGI World's first fully autonomous field robotics system for vegetable growing that brings fresh vegetables directly from the field to the consumer, using embodied AI, precise robotics and a stationary traverse system to cultivate, monitor, harvest and pack vegetables into crates on-site. Designed for farmers, municipalities and institutions seeking energy-self-sufficient, labour-independent vegetable production.
• ETAROB Multi-purpose agricultural robot for vegetable cultivation that uses a spot-farming approach where each plant is observed individually and cultivated according to its needs. Equipped with various tools for all cultivation steps from soil preparation to sowing and harvesting, with autonomous navigation using GPS, visual odometry, IMU and compass. Enables mixed crops on a single plot.
• Vegetable Harvesting Module (VHM) Modular harvesting process tool that automates the harvesting of multiple vegetable crops (iceberg lettuce, white cabbage, red cabbage, broccoli, kohlrabi, cauliflower and celery). Sold as an add-on module that can be combined with ETAROB and DAVEGI systems to relieve farmers from labour-intensive selective harvesting.

Quantifiable outcome

• Up to 70% water savings through demand-orientated irrigation
• +9 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability8 records

Feature9 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core, minor and supporting.

• Othmerding Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KGcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the DeepFarmBots ZIM Innovationsnetzwerk (ZIM Innovations Network) alongside DFKI and AI.Land. Contributes agricultural machinery expertise to the collaborative development of deep farm robotics solutions.
• Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-presented the DeepFarmBots ZIM Innovationsnetzwerk with AI.Land and Othmerding Maschinenbau at INNOTAG 2024. DFKI contributes AI research expertise to the joint robotics development initiative.
• ORB gGmbH (Open Research Base)coreTechnology or IntegrationAI.Land works with ORB's farm management system built on Odoo and ROS. The ERP monitors plant growth through sensor data and defines robot tasks, linked to a web shop for direct vegetable sales. ORB is a key technology integration partner.
• Agrobusiness NiederrheinminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-organiser of the structural change safari to Krefeld hosted by AI.Land in November 2025, in cooperation with the Revier Academy of the Zukunftsagentur Rheinisches Revier.
• Revier Academy of the Zukunftsagentur Rheinisches RevierminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-organiser with Agrobusiness Niederrhein of the structural change safari event at AI.Land's Krefeld facility, focused on regional agricultural innovation and networking.
• Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung (BLE)supportingOthersProject sponsor of the vegetable harvesting module (VHM) via ERDF grant. BLE provides co-funding for the development of the multifunctional harvesting tool as part of AI.Land's modular agricultural robot programme.
• Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)supportingOthersProject sponsor of ETAROB's tillage tool development via DBU grant. DBU supports the development of precision tillage capabilities as part of the multi-tool ETAROB platform.
• Landwirtschaftliche RentenbanksupportingOthersFunder/sponsor of the DAVEGI project. Listed among DAVEGI's references and partners as a development financing institution supporting agricultural innovation.
• NRW.BanksupportingOthersFunder/sponsor of the DAVEGI project. Listed among DAVEGI's references and partners as a development bank of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
• Ziel2.NRWsupportingOthersFunder/sponsor of the vegetable harvesting module via REACT-EU funding. Ziel2.NRW is a European regional development fund programme supporting innovation in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Scale indicators13 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Naio Technologies: French agricultural robotics company developing autonomous weeding and vegetable cultivation robots (Oz, Dino, Ted). Closely comparable to AI.Land as a European, vegetable-focused autonomous field robot maker with similar modular tool platforms and farm-scale deployment model.
• Ecorobotix: Swiss precision weeding robot company using AI-based plant recognition and high-precision spot spraying for specialty crops. Directly comparable to AI.Land in targeting European vegetable and specialty crop farmers with AI-driven, plant-level precision.
• FarmDroid: Danish maker of the FD20 autonomous seeding and weeding robot for sugar beets and vegetables, solar-powered and GPS-guided. Comparable to ETAROB's spot-farming, GPS/visual-odometry autonomous approach for vegetable row crops.
• Small Robot Company: UK-based per-plant farming robotics company building Tom, Dick, and Harry robots for non-chemical weeding and crop monitoring. Highly comparable to AI.Land's per-plant vision/embodied-AI approach for specialty crop farming.
• Carbon Robotics: US company behind the LaserWeeder, an autonomous robot using computer vision and high-power lasers for in-row weeding of specialty crops. Comparable to AI.Land as a vision-AI-driven autonomous robot vendor targeting vegetable/specialty crop farmers.
• Verdant Robotics: US agricultural robotics company offering the Sharpshooter sprayer and automated thinning/harvesting systems for specialty crops. Comparable in targeting per-plant precision agriculture with AI and robotic actuation for high-value row crops.

Broad incumbents

• John Deere (Deere & Company): Global incumbent in agricultural machinery with the largest R&D budget in agtech, having acquired Blue River Technology for computer-vision-driven crop management. Represents the dominant incumbent competitor AI.Land would eventually face in autonomous agriculture.
• AGCO Corporation: Global agricultural equipment manufacturer (Fendt, Massey Ferguson, Valtra) actively investing in autonomous and precision farming through its PTx Trimble partnership. Relevant as a broad incumbent competing for the same specialty-crop automation wallet.
• Kubota Corporation: Japanese agricultural machinery leader with a strong push into autonomous tractors, agri-robotics, and AI-driven specialty crop solutions in Europe and Asia. Comparable as an incumbent likely to compete with AI.Land in vegetable robotics over time.

Regional players

• Garford Farm Machinery: UK-based manufacturer of mechanical and vision-guided robotic weeding equipment (Robocrop) for row crops and vegetables. Comparable to AI.Land as a European provider of vision-guided inter-row weeding and cultivation equipment for specialty crops.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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