Harvest Automation · working robot
HV-100
Harvey
A small wheeled robot with a gripper that picks up potted plants and sets them down in neat spaced rows, working alone or in teams indoors and outdoors.
- Price
- $30,000Cheaper than 20%
- Height
- 53 cmTaller than 26%
- Weight
- 38.5 kgHeavier than 21%
- Payload
- 10 kgCarries more than 7%
- Speed
- 7.2 km/hFaster than 71%
- Battery
- 4 hRuns longer than 14%
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Why it matters
One of the first commercial robots for plant nurseries, working in teams to move and space potted plants.
Real-world use
More than 200 HV-100s deployed across North America, Europe and Australia (maker).
Timeline
- First shown
- 2012
- Released
- 2013
Maker
Harvest AutomationCompany · founded 2008-2009 (sources differ) · Billerica, Massachusetts, USAHow it stacks up
Against other working & field robots that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
HV-100 (Harvey) is taller than 26% of the 72 other working & field robots that publish a height. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
HV-100 (Harvey) is heavier than 21% of the 75 other working & field robots that publish a weight. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
HV-100 (Harvey) is faster than 71% of the 86 other working & field robots that publish a speed. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
HV-100 (Harvey) carries more than 7% of the 84 other working & field robots that publish a payload. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
HV-100 (Harvey) has more joints than 0% of the 3 other working & field robots that publish a joints. Bars show the 3 closest in date.
HV-100 (Harvey) runs longer than 14% of the 86 other working & field robots that publish a battery. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
HV-100 (Harvey) costs less than 20% of the 20 other working & field robots that publish a price. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Public attention
How much public attention HV-100 (Harvey) gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- No recent press stories listed yet
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheeled base · 4 joints
- How it runs
- Fully autonomous. Teams of HV-100 robots automatically space and collect potted plants alongside nursery workers.
- Actuators & motors
- Two drive-wheel motors, one manipulator motor and one gripper motor (4 DoF).
- Hands
- Simple gripper arm that picks up and places potted plants; payload up to 10 kg.
- Sensors & vision
- Forward laser range finder to find pots and obstacles; four downward boundary sensors for bed edges; gyro and wheel encoders.
- Compute
- ARM CPU plus peripheral processors.
- Battery & power
- Two 24 V lithium-ion batteries, about 4 hours; quick-swap packs for round-the-clock use.
- Materials & build
- Aluminium and steel.
- AI & software
- Linux plus custom software; works alone or in teams with no mapping or infrastructure.
- Other details
- About 38.5 kg.
From the maker
HV-100 (Harvey) is the only machine from Harvest Automation in the atlas.
Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- $30,000$30,000 base price per robot
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Built
- More than 200 HV-100s deployed (maker)
- Sold or delivered
- Base price about $30,000 per robot; first robots delivered to customers in summer 2012, US product introduction 2013
- Where it is sold or used
- Harvest Automation, Billerica, Massachusetts
- Customers and pilots
- Nurseries and greenhouses in the US, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Germany and Australia
Sources
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