Belgian robotics engineering firm in Eke-Nazareth building autonomous ground robots and drone systems for plant nurseries and farms.
Exobotic Technologies is a Belgian engineering company that designs and builds autonomous robots and robotic subsystems, with most of its published work in agriculture and horticulture. The company is based at Steenweg 146A in Eke-Nazareth, East Flanders, and is registered as an SME in ITEA, the European R&D programme. It is a young start-up developing robots for indoor and outdoor use, with in-house mechanical, electronic and software engineering and a focus on autonomous navigation, and its team has designed custom UAVs, AGVs and robotic subsystems for retail, logistics and agriculture clients.
The company's website groups its offer into three services: development and prototyping, co-creation through strategic partnerships, and in-house capabilities. Its technology areas are autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, big data, drones, precision robotics and machine vision. Exobotic markets a family of robotic platforms under the name Exobots, with land platforms shown as Land-A1, Land-A2 and Land-A3.
Projects include an autonomous spot-spraying robot for the ERIKSBO plant nursery, a smart-farming project under the EU Horizon programme that combines soil sensors with a robotic tool carrier for soil sampling, ARBOTO (a prototype four-wheel-drive, four-wheel-steer robot vehicle for tree nurseries), and a ground station for autonomous drone take-off and landing used for crop inspection within the SmartAgriHubs network.
As documented in an EU AgrifoodTEF network case study, Exobotic's nursery platform performs weed management with a precision spraying module for nursery borders. It navigates with RTK-GNSS, carries a modular boom with adjustable height and angle, uses PWM-controlled nozzles and a 200-litre tank certified by ENAMA, and includes geofencing plus a mission-planning and monitoring interface. ILVO, the Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, tested battery capacity, drivetrain efficiency and spray performance at its accredited Spray Tech Lab. The first machine was delivered to a commercial end user in Sweden in late 2025, with border spraying planned from March to October 2026. Planned extensions include autonomous mowing, material transport and towing. Organisations associated with Exobotic include Colruyt Group, ILVO, Proximus and SmartAgriHubs.
Primary type & automation activities this supplier delivers:
RTK-GNSS guided robot for autonomous spot spraying of weeds along plant nursery borders
Prototype four-wheel-drive, four-wheel-steer robot vehicle for tree nurseries
Ground station for autonomous drone take-off and landing used in crop inspection (SmartAgriHubs)
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