AgriPass Robotics is an Israeli agtech company founded in 2023 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, developing robotic weed-management technology that helps farmers improve yields while reducing their reliance on chemical herbicides and manual labor. Weeds compete with crops for water, nutrients and light, and controlling them is one of the costliest and most labor-intensive parts of farming, traditionally addressed with broad herbicide spraying that raises costs and environmental concerns.
The company's flagship product, RHIC (Robot of Human Inspired Cultivation), is designed to replicate the human weeding process and make it affordable at scale. It pairs computer vision with contextual AI to distinguish weeds from crops and then remove them mechanically at the root, treating weeds selectively rather than blanketing fields with chemicals. By focusing intervention only where weeds actually grow, the approach reduces herbicide use, lowers input costs and addresses the tightening regulatory and consumer pressure around agrochemicals.
Labor is a second driver. Across many regions, farms struggle to find workers for manual weeding, an arduous and increasingly unaffordable task. Robotic weeding offers a path to consistent, around-the-clock weed control that does not depend on scarce seasonal labor, helping growers maintain productivity despite workforce shortages, and supports regenerative farming practices.
AgriPass sits within the autonomous-weeding segment that drew more precision-agriculture investment than any other category in 2025, and won the Climate Solutions Prize in 2025. In March 2026 the company completed a $7.5 million seed round led by Harbor Venture Consulting, with participation from existing investor E44 Climate Ventures, and announced a partnership with Fyeld to expand deployment of its technology. The funding supports product development and commercial rollout as AgriPass works to bring precise, chemical-reducing robotic weeding to more farmers.