Burro introduces Grande 44 with proven outdoor autonomy built for heavy industry

The Grande 44 is Burro’s most powerful autonomous platform to date and its first built for heavy industry. Source: Burro

Physical AI is helping field robotics become more capable. Burro today launched the Grande 44, which has 44 hp of peak power, towing capacity of 6,000 lb. (2,721.5 kg), and the ability to operate both indoors and outdoors. The company said its platform brings proven autonomy to industrial applications that conventional robots cannot reach.

“Robots have long been stuck in warehouses and factories,” stated Charlie Andersen, co-founder and CEO of Burro. “Few companies have successfully scaled autonomy outdoors — into agriculture, construction, and now heavy industry — where trillions of dollars are spent on labor every year.”

“Every hour of operation, every mile, every unpredictable condition we’ve encountered in the field has made our platform smarter and more reliable,” he assserted. “Grande 44 is what that experience looks like when it’s built for the industrial world.”

Founded in 2017, Burro is a leading provider of autonomous mobile robots ( AMRs ) for work outdoors. The Philadelphia-based company has designed field robots that use AI and computer vision to perform a variety of tasks in harsh, unpredictable real-world environments.

An exhibitor at last month’s Robotics Summit & Expo , Burro has deployed more than 750 robots and logged over 1 million hours of autonomous operation across the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, the U.K., Israel, and Latin America.

Burro said the Grande 44 marks a significant expansion. The company said it is applying experience from more than 200,000 mi. (321,868 km) of real-world operation across agriculture , nurseries, and logistics to a system built for the toughest industrial environments, such as intermodal and depot yards , airports, rail yards, automotive logistics, and unique facility campuses.

Traditional AMRs and automated guided vehicles ( AGVs ) are engineered for smooth warehouse floors and require magnetic tape, reflectors, and consistent lighting, noted Burro. The Grande 44 is designed to cross the threshold from indoor facilities to outdoor yards natively. It can navigate gravel, slopes, dust, mud, and variable weather without infrastructure modification or operational interruption.

Burro said its new platform supports a range of industrial workflows:

Burro noted that the Grande 44’s AI draws directly from millions of environmental scenes that it gathers every day. The company uses images of people, terrain, weather, obstacles, and lighting to build a proprietary dataset that powers continuous improvement across its entire fleet.