Built by farmers. Engineered for farms.
R3 Robotics was founded in Quebec, Canada in 2018 — not in a lab, but inside a real commercial mushroom farm.
Where it all started.
2018
Founded
Most agricultural robotics companies are built by engineers who study farming from the outside. R3 was different from day one. Our company was co-founded by a commercial mushroom farmer and engineer who knew firsthand what the industry needed — because he lived it every day. That origin shapes everything we build. Every product R3 has developed was designed around the realities of real farm operations — not lab conditions, not theoretical use cases. Real grow rooms, real flushes, real harvests.
How we build.
R3 brings together a multidisciplinary team of engineers — all working toward one goal: automation that actually works on a real farm. We don't design in isolation. Every system we build is developed, tested, and refined at working commercial mushroom farms alongside the growers who use them. That means when our technology reaches your farm, it's already been proven in production — not just in a demo.
7+
Years of R&D
3
Products in Production
2
Commercial Farm Partners
1
Primary Research Partner
Seven years in the making.
R3 Robotics founded in Montreal, Quebec. Picker Robot development begins inside a working commercial mushroom farm.
Robotics team expands. Multiple generations of vision systems, grippers, and robot designs developed and tested.
AI Growing System development begins, trained on years of real commercial farm data.
AI and machine learning capabilities expand. Yield prediction and disease detection models begin production testing.
Farm Management System development begins. R3 is now building all three pillars of the complete mushroom farm platform.
Farm Management System completed and live in production.
Picker Robot and AI Growing System completed. R3 becomes the first company to offer a fully integrated automation platform built exclusively for commercial mushroom farms.
Who we work with.
R3 Robotics develops its technology in close partnership with leading institutions and real commercial farms — integral to developing, testing, and refining every R3 product in real production environments.
Primary Research Partner
National Research Council of Canada (NRC/CNRC)
Commercial Farm Partner
Champag Inc
Commercial Farm Partner
Sharon Mushroom Farm
Their input isn't a formality — it's built into how we design everything.
Where we're going.
R3 was built to solve the hardest problems in commercial mushroom farming — labor shortages, inconsistent growing conditions, and fragmented farm management. Our mission going forward is to make the fully autonomous mushroom farm a reality for commercial growers everywhere — and eventually to bring the same integrated approach to other high-value crops around the world.