Context and Challenges
Diversified vegetable growers face significant human and economic challenges that deeply impact their daily lives. Behind every farm are passionate men and women, often grappling with physically demanding work, increasing difficulty in recruiting and retaining qualified labour, and constant financial uncertainty due to seasonality and income variability. These conditions make their profession particularly demanding, both physically and mentally, complicating long-term improvement and sustainability.
This complexity is further heightened for diversified vegetable farms, where growers manage a multitude of crops—up to 50 different species per year. Each week, they must offer a complete range of seasonal products, requiring meticulous organisation to stagger harvests, synchronise crop cycles, and ensure continuous supply to meet the expectations of short supply chains.
Behind this diversity, which enriches their production, lies countless hours of planning and labour, often carried out under challenging conditions.
For these growers, finding solutions to lighten workloads, reduce errors, and secure their income is essential. It allows them to focus on what matters most: the quality of their products, the health of their soils, and the long-term viability of their profession.
Unfortunately, the diversified vegetable farming market is often deemed unprofitable by manufacturers, leading to a lack of tailored solutions for these growers. As a result, vegetable growers are among the last in the agricultural sector to benefit from major technical and technological advances, limiting opportunities to improve their working conditions and profitability.

Specific Challenges for Diversified Vegetable Growers

• Reducing labour intensity: Growers need tools to alleviate repetitive, arduous, and time-consuming tasks.
• Managing staggered production: Spreading the harvest of a single crop over several weeks or months to meet customer demand.
• Juggling multiple tasks: A single grower may manage dozens of crops, each with different production cycles.
• Fragmented plots: Parcels range from a few hundred square metres to over one hectare, spread across multiple sites. Their locations and distribution often change annually, adding to management complexity.
• Precise organisation: Every planning error or delay in sowing can disrupt the entire system.

The Innovation
Naïo Companion, combined with the Oz robot, is the first comprehensive routine management solution specifically designed for diversified vegetable farming. It simplifies all interventions and enables growers to supervise the robot remotely via a mobile application.
By offering an intuitive interface and centralised task management, this innovation makes agricultural robotics more accessible to growers, allowing them to adopt and gradually integrate these new technologies into their farms.
By incorporating parcel mapping and considering the specifics of each crop and required tools, the Naïo Companion application helps prepare technical itineraries during the winter, enabling growers to organise the entire season.
Naïo Companion allows growers to synchronise tool management, automate weeding and sowing operations, and monitor work in real-time via an intuitive interface.

Key Advantages

• Simplicity and versatility: Simplify task management by configuring and storing multiple tools (seeders, hoes, harrows, etc.) to quickly deploy the robot across various crops.
• Real-time supervision: Monitor the location and progress of Oz on the parcel live, and adjust speed and depth parameters remotely.
• Complete operational control: Centralise the robot’s usage history on the Naïo Companion app, track the number of passes per parcel, and allocate the robot for specific operations.
• Improved work comfort and time savings: Automating repetitive manual tasks and real-time monitoring enable better work organisation, reducing stress associated with managing interventions and overseeing operations.

What Makes This Innovation Unique?
Naïo Companion is the only agricultural routine manager integrated with a 100% autonomous robot, specifically designed to meet the needs of vegetable growers.
This application consolidates, automates, and executes all management tasks on a digital platform directly connected to the Oz robot.
The application transforms manual planning—often prone to errors and rigidity—into streamlined and flexible management, where each task is precisely orchestrated and adjustable in real-time, providing complete control of the robot in the field.
No other agricultural robot on the market currently offers this dual functionality of routine management and integrated control, making Naïo Companion a significant technological breakthrough for the sector.

Target Audience
Naïo Companion has been developed to adapt to all four robots in the Naïo range, offering an integrated management solution for a wide variety of agricultural needs: vegetable growing, vineyards, orchards, and other specialised crops.
When paired with the Oz robot—the world’s first robot with ten years of field experience and used by 300 producers—the application is primarily aimed at diversified vegetable growers. This integrated solution also meets the needs of other specialised producers, such as nurseries, seed producers, and growers of aromatic, medicinal, and perfume plants (PPAM), who manage many crops on small areas with great flexibility.