Nature Robots
Osnabruck, Germany navigation-software developer founded 2022 as a DFKI spinoff; its Autonomy OS retrofits tractors for GNSS-free operation.
Nature Robots GmbH is a German agricultural-robotics software company headquartered in Osnabruck, Germany, incorporated in January 2022 as a spin-off of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). It was founded by Sebastian Puetz, Malte kleine Piening, Gerrit Woeckner, and Sven Lake, and remains an independent, venture-backed company with a team of roughly 25 people.
Its product is Autonomy OS, a navigation operating system that fits onto existing farm machinery rather than replacing it, handling planning, control, and observation in GNSS-denied fields. It ships in three variants: Open Field Nav for row crops, OrchVine Nav for orchards, vineyards, and hops with reactive hedge-row following, and Horti Nav for plot-based horticulture and greenhouses. Autonomy OS supports Ackermann, all-wheel-steering, and holonomic platforms through a hardware abstraction layer, adds LiDAR-based perception and 3D terrain mapping, and typically fits a tractor, sprayer, mower, or weeding robot within one to two weeks; the software is licensed annually by machine count.
The company has logged more than 500 hours of autonomous field operation and secured EUR 2.5 million in non-equity EIC Accelerator funding, approved March 2025, plus a EUR 4 million seed round closed March 2026 led by Climentum Capital, Bayern Kapital, and Planetary Impact Ventures. Nature Robots won Germany's Agri Startup Award in 2023.
Primary type & automation activities this supplier delivers:
Lero.02 Autonomous Monitoring Robot
Autonomous agricultural monitoring robot creating high-resolution 3D plant and weed maps for crop management without GNSS.
Lero.03 Field Robot
Robust autonomous field robot with implement bridge frame for weeding, seeding, and precision farming tasks, 8+ hours daily runtime.
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https://naturerobots.comPHONE
+49 541 386050 2262HEADQUARTERS
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2022
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