Farm-ng
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
farm-ng was a Watsonville, California agtech startup founded in 2020 by Ethan Rublee. It built the Amiga — lightweight, modular electric robots that performed a range of farm tasks, from soil preparation and planting to harvesting in crops from lettuce to grapes — targeted at small and medium-sized farming operations. On July 24, 2025, San Jose-based Bonsai Robotics (a vision-based autonomy software company founded in 2022) acquired farm-ng to combine its AI software with farm-ng's customizable robotic hardware platform; Bonsai later launched an Amiga vehicle lineup (Amiga Flex, Trax, Max) on the acquired platform.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
farm-ng was founded in 2020 in Watsonville, California by Ethan Rublee to build modular electric robots for small and mid-sized farms.
- Acquired
On July 24, 2025, Bonsai Robotics acquired farm-ng, combining Bonsai's vision-based autonomy AI with farm-ng's Amiga robotic platform; farm-ng's former CEO became chief business officer of the combined company.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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