Red Barn Robotics

A Roomba for weeds on a farm.

Y CombinatorWinter 2025ActiveIndustrialsAgriculture

What they do

Problem

Farmers spend heavily on weed control yet still suffer yield losses and labor shortages because existing weeding methods are costly, slow, and imprecise.

Solution

An autonomous field robot that identifies and precisely removes weeds while leaving crops untouched.

Who it's for

Crop farmers and agricultural operations that need to control weeds without relying on scarce manual labor.

Founders

Adam Iseman

Founder

I'm the CEO of Red Barn Robotics where we are building an autonomous weeding robot to help healthily feed the world.

Ilya Kelner

Founder

CTO/cofounder at Red Barn Robotics. Previously worked on: Flight software and testing architecture @ Relativity Space - Flight software lead. Built: triple string fault tolerant flight computer architecture, Dockerized flight software deployments, CI/CD for HOOTL, HITL, VITL. Autonomous cars @ Nvidia. Starlink @ SpaceX. Xbox @ Microsoft. Early employee at 2 other startups in the past.

Alex Neff

Founder

Co-founder and COO of Red Barn Robotics, building an autonomous weeding robot to help healthily feed the world. Previously Senior Product Manager at Amazon where I led the development of new ML based search algorithms.