AgMove Robotics builds sub-20 HP farm rover for Indian vineyards
Pune-based AgMove Robotics, which builds sub-20 horsepower equipment for vineyards and horticulture farms, remains bootstrapped with only a grant of about ₹8 lakh recorded in November 2023. No equity round has been disclosed, and the company has funded its own development since its founding that same year.
The company was founded by Bhushan Darekar to target a narrow but persistent gap in Indian farm mechanisation: the space between a backpack sprayer and a tractor. A full-sized machine cannot fit between vineyard rows, yet the manual alternative means walking those rows with a tank on your back in heat, breathing chemical drift — a job farms increasingly cannot fill with labour.
AgMove's answer is the Farm Guardian Rover, a remote-controlled and autonomous rover designed for spraying, intercultural operations, and crop management. It runs on real-time kinematic positioning for centimetre-level accuracy down a row and uses AI-based perception.
For spraying, the rover employs electrostatic application — droplets charged so they adhere to leaf surfaces — which the company says reduces pesticide wastage and provides more uniform coverage. The operator stays out of the field entirely.
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The rover is built as a multi-utility platform that can take different implements, a deliberate choice for smallholdings where a single-task machine sits idle most of the year.
The company frames its design around timeliness: the argument that farm losses come less from wrong operations than from right operations completed too late, when labour cannot be found in the window that matters. The equipment is also designed for gender-neutral operation, widening the pool of people who can run it on a holding.
AgMove's intended customers are progressive farmers, shared cultivators, and younger entrants to farming, with rental models cited as a path to reaching growers who cannot purchase outright — a model already common across India's mid-sized farm mechanisation landscape through custom hiring centres.
The Farm Guardian Rover is listed on AIKosh, the Indian government's AI use-case repository, as a deployed application in vineyards and horticulture. The company has a product in the field, but its commercial record is still to be built.
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