Rory Aronson, CEO of FarmBot Inc, was recently featured on the Crazy Wisdom podcast with Stewart Alsop. Listen in to learn about how open-source hardware is transforming home gardening into a more automated and accessible practice. Rory explains how FarmBot works—essentially...
Hello all, last week we pushed a big update to the FarmBot web app with many improvements. Here’s what’s new: 3D soil height The 3D farm designer now renders an interpolated 3D mapping of the soil’s surface based on the measured or...
Earlier this month we began shipping FarmBot Genesis and Genesis XL v1.8 kits to new customers. We’ve been fulfilling pre-orders on a first-in, first-out basis, and as of today we are through our backlog of orders up until about May 20th. The lead time...
Over the last month we moved into a new 2,500 square foot warehouse and office space in San Luis Obispo, CA. The change was made for three reasons: 1) The sunsetting of the FarmBot Express line mid-2024 meant we simply...
Six years ago FarmBot moved into a large open floor plan warehouse in San Luis Obispo, California. With ample room for 3-level pallet racks, dedicated outdoor space, and a mezzanine and several rooms suitable for office work, it presented itself as...
Today, on April 21st, 2025, we shut down the OpenFarm servers after being online for a little more than 10 years. The codebase was no longer being maintained and the server infrastructure it was running on was set to no...
Today we’ve got an exciting update for you. Let’s dive in! 3D farm designer beta Originally inspired by video games such as Farmville, the FarmBot farm designer has always been at the core of our user experience, providing a virtual...
Genesis v1.8 update The first batch of FarmBot Genesis and Genesis XL v1.8 kits are now well underway, with the first QA (Quality Assurance) kits set to be finished mid-March. These QA kits are the very first off the production line and...
Rory Aronson, CEO of FarmBot Inc, was recently featured on the The Wisenetix Podcast to discuss the transformative role open-source farming robotics is playing in small-scale agriculture. From empowering agronomy researchers with precise tools for experimentation, to automating the backyard plot,...
