Burro
The Burro follows pickers, carrying loads to the headland so harvest crews never stop. Outside of harvest, Burro doubles as a mobility platform for scouting, monitoring, and third-party attachments built on Burro’s open API.
Specialty and high-value vegetable crops harvested by hand — typically wide-bed vegetable operations and protected-cropping operations where row or aisle spacing accommodates Burro’s 92 cm (36″) chassis. Burro is most at home in row-crop harvest assist, shuttling lugs from picker to headland. Real-world deployments today centre on blueberries, blackberries, and grapes; the same workflow extends naturally to hand-harvested vegetable crops with comparable row geometry.
The FIRA Robotics Village is a robotics and automation-focused area embedded within Penn State’s Ag Progress Days.