Red Barn Robotics

About

We are building an autonomous robot to precisely eliminate weeds and leave crops untouched. Despite $100 billion being spent annually on weed control, weeds still cost the US economy $46B/year. Weeds steal sunlight and nutrients from crops, forcing farmers to choose between higher costs and lower yields. Moreover, many farms still rely on hand labor to control weed growth. The process is slow, expensive, and increasingly difficult due to constant labor shortages (1 out of every 5 US farm positions go unfilled each year). Our robot nicknamed the Field Hand is able to automate one of the worst jobs on a farm and will help healthily feed the world.

Founders

Adam IsemanFounder

I'm the CEO of Red Barn Robotics where we are building an autonomous weeding robot to help healthily feed the world.

Ilya KelnerFounder

CTO/cofounder at Red Barn Robotics. Previously worked on: Flight software and testing architecture @ Relativity Space - Flight software lead. Built: triple string fault tolerant flight computer architecture, Dockerized flight software deployments, CI/CD for HOOTL, HITL, VITL. Autonomous cars @ Nvidia. Starlink @ SpaceX. Xbox @ Microsoft. Early employee at 2 other startups in the past.

Alex NeffFounder

Co-founder and COO of Red Barn Robotics, building an autonomous weeding robot to help healthily feed the world. Previously Senior Product Manager at Amazon where I led the development of new ML based search algorithms.