No RTK GPS needed
The robot navigates rows, canopy, and open field with no RTK GPS and no prior map. Under a closed canopy it keeps working where a GPS guided machine stops.
Modular by design
TerraSentia+
What will you measure, build, create?
TerraSentia+ is a 25 kg autonomous field robot for scouting, inspection, mapping, and autonomy research. It drives itself with no RTK GPS and no prior map.
- 25 kg
- Compact platform
- Under canopy
- Form factor
- ROS 2
- Open to your code
- 14 countries
- In the field since 2018
A one-person lift, airline check-in compatible
Fits between mature rows
Standard topics and services
Universities, breeders, and growers
What is on board
The full stack, on board.
Offline edge perception
Perception and control run on the robot itself. Your trial site does not need connectivity, and your data does not need to leave the field.
Terra AI terrain intelligence
TerraSentia+ runs the same learned traction and terrain model as our production platforms, so it handles soft ground and slope the way a driver would.
Research-grade data capture
The robot logs every sensor stream time-aligned with its own actions. That is the format a decade of our own phenotyping research runs on.
Open to your code
You can bring your own perception, planning, or control code. The platform exposes ROS 2 interfaces for research on top of the stock stack, or in place of it.
A decade in the field
This platform line generated the dataset behind Terra AI. It has been in service in 14 countries since 2018, with universities, breeders, and growers.
Use cases
What research teams build on it.
High-throughput phenotyping
Plant-level traits under the canopy: stand counts, height, biomass, and canopy health, on every plot rather than a sampled subset.
Autonomy research
University and corporate labs test navigation, perception, and planning on a platform that already drives itself on day one.
Prototyping and product development
Robotics teams build their own product on a proven chassis and autonomy stack instead of spending two years rebuilding one.
Testing and benchmarking
The robot gives you a stable, repeatable baseline to evaluate your own autonomy against, run after run and season after season.
Teaching
Courses and student teams get a real autonomous robot rather than a simulator. Academic pricing applies to universities and teaching programs.
Modular by design
Your sensors. Your payload. Our autonomy.
The sensor and payload bays are open. Bring your own cameras, hyperspectral imagers, soil probes, or scientific instruments, and power them off the auxiliary rails. We drive the rows. You measure what you came to measure.
Who runs it
- · Crop breeders running high-throughput field phenotyping
- · University and government research stations
- · Robotics teams prototyping on a proven platform
- · Plantation and orchard R&D teams scouting yield variation
Standard configurations
Four ways to start.
Every unit is configured to the work it has to do. If none of these is quite right, we build to your spec.
Core
The base platform with exactly what a project needs to get moving: full autonomy, front stereo camera, and open payload bays. No extra frills.
Best forRobotics R&D, material transport
Insight
Adds side-facing cameras and LiDAR for a 360 degree view around the robot, so every plot is measured from three sides in one pass.
Best forPhenotyping, scouting, 3D mapping
Reach
Adds Starlink connectivity and teleoperation, for sites where staying in contact with the robot is non-negotiable.
Best forPatrolling, site monitoring, hazard detection
Fusion
Both at once: the full 360 degree sensor suite plus teleoperation, for work you cannot walk out to.
Best forInspection, hazardous-area operations, search and rescue
Specifications
The platform at a glance.
We confirm final specifications at order. Ask for the full spec sheet with your reservation.
- Class
- Compact under-canopy autonomous ground robot
- Weight
- About 25 kg: a one-person lift, airline check-in compatible
- Field heritage
- Platform line in service in 14 countries since 2018, with universities, breeders, and growers
- Autonomy
- Full Terra AI stack: no RTK GPS needed, fully offline, with waypoint navigation and obstacle detection
- Drive
- Four brushless DC motors with independent suspension on all wheels
- Payload
- 100 kg payload capacity, 200 kg towing capacity, modular mounting system
- Compute
- Intel Core Ultra 7 with NVIDIA RTX GPU, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD; optional NVIDIA Jetson upgrade; ROS and ROS 2 compatible
- Sensors
- Front stereo camera standard; side cameras and LiDAR by configuration; IMU and wheel encoders; open bays for your instruments
- Endurance
- 8+ hours of battery, with optional wireless charging
- Connectivity
- RTK-capable GPS, onboard Wi-Fi, global 5G modem, optional Starlink; Ethernet and USB
- Protection
- IP56 rated against dust and water
- Configurations
- Core, Insight, Reach, and Fusion variants, customized to order
Reserve
Pricing on inquiry.
We configure every unit to the work: sensors, compute, and payload options to order. Academic pricing is available for universities and teaching programs. Tell us what you are building and we will come back with a configuration and a quote.
A reservation takes no payment now. It starts a configuration conversation with our team and holds your place in the build queue.