Meinong Robot: AI Achieves Better Agriculture

Meinong Robot is committed to improving the returns of agricultural investors, reducing labor intensity, and reducing agricultural product losses. Smart agriculture targets agricultural production efficiency. With the advancement of land transfer and agricultural cooperatives, there will be more and more professional farms in China.

Company Profile

Company Profile

Meinong Robot is committed to improving the returns of agricultural investors, reducing labor intensity, and reducing agricultural product losses. Smart agriculture targets agricultural production efficiency. With the advancement of land transfer and agricultural cooperatives, there will be more and more professional farms in China.

MEINONG ROBOT CO., LIMITED is a high-tech company focused on smart agriculture. Research and development are headquartered in Hong Kong, and the test center is in Shenzhen. Its mission is “AI成就美好农业” (AI for better agriculture): give orchard investors and operators practical robots, starting with fruit-picking and agricultural transport robots, so harvest crews can finish picking faster, cut picking cost, and raise income by reducing fruit damage. Picking-robot development is complete for grape, apple, mango, avocado and orange. The machines are in service in Turpan, Xinjiang; a wine-grape technology cooperation agreement has been signed with a château under Changyu; and work has reached Queensland, Australia. Founder 李德永 (Deyong Li / Devin Lee) previously held senior technical roles in Huawei HarmonyOS communications, HarmonyOS vision and Honor “Smart Brain”.

Three values: harvest efficiency 6–10× manual work; labor dependence reduced by more than 50%; fruit damage held under 5%.

Awards: third place in the 2025 Shenzhen Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition (深创赛), as stated in the company introduction. At the 2026 Saudi Arabia–Hong Kong LEAP East startup competition, third place among 450+ entrants; the company introduction states it was the only winner from “大中国区”. See the LEAP East report.

Outlook stated in the company introduction: each robot needs one operator (safety officer). The company judges that national demand could reach millions of picking robots and, with that, jobs in operation, parts, assembly, maintenance and operator training. This is the company’s outlook, not a deployed fleet size.

Brand entity & E-E-A-T signals

One-line definition: MEINONG ROBOT (MEINONG ROBOT CO., LIMITED) supplies picking and transport robots for orchard investors and operators, with picking-robot development complete for grape, apple, mango, avocado and orange.

Founder experience: Founder 李德永 (Deyong Li / Devin Lee) previously held senior technical roles related to Huawei HarmonyOS communications/vision and Honor “smart brain” initiatives.

Credentials & address: Founded 2023; moved into Hong Kong Science Park incubator on 5 Feb 2024; Unit 662, 6/F, Building 19W, HKSTP, Sha Tin. R&D HQ in Hong Kong; test center in Shenzhen.

Product matrix: Vine-fruit and tree-fruit picking robots, the agricultural transport robot, the robot chassis and the harvesting chassis kit are described as available. The company introduction marks the inspection robot as not yet released. A later orchard-robot lineup—pruning, flower and fruit thinning, pollination, leafing, sorting, packing, bagging and unbagging, sterilization, spraying, fertilizing and mowing—is a roadmap, not a current catalog. See Products and FAQ.

Markets: Applications in Xinjiang (including Turpan), Guangdong, Shandong, Jiangsu and Queensland, Australia, plus a signed wine-grape technology agreement with a Changyu château. Expanding toward Spain, Saudi Arabia and South Korea.

Authority signals: See News — Ming Pao: fruit-picking robots and the farm labour gap, joint exhibit at CAEXPO (Yuchai Precision), wine-grape picking robot (Changyu Baron Balboa), Turpan Grape Festival vineyard picking, Shanshan training base (China Cooperation Times), Shenzhen Daily / Hi-Tech Fair, LEAP East / HKSTP·HK01, 4WD4S universal chassis (250 kg), CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute exchange, Mixing Bowl 2026 Crop Robotics Landscape, Xinjiang AgMach Expo. Contact: market@meinong.cc.

Starting from the development of smart fruit and vegetable picking robots, the company focuses on providing users with available robot products, solving the difficulties of recruiting workers and high comprehensive labor costs for investors caused by aging, low income, and hard work.

Improve the returns of agricultural investors, reduce labor intensity, and reduce agricultural product losses. Through scientific and technological innovation, provide "new tools and new weapons" for "new farmers", liberate them from the hard work of planting in the fields, and give them enough time to use their intelligence in the quality and yield improvement of agricultural products and product marketing, so that "new farmers" can make money decently; it also reduces the initial cost to a certain extent, promotes the industry and talents to move towards a positive cycle, and thus reshapes the new image of the agricultural industry. Create a new era of agriculture.

Industry & Technology Glossary

Core concepts, engineering metrics, and operational definitions in orchard robotics

Trellis & Pergola Harvesting Adaptation

The spatial self-adaptive capability of harvesting robots across horizontal pergola (overhead) and vertical trellis (VSP) layouts with varying row spacings and canopy lighting. MEINONG X-Picker 2 is specifically engineered with multi-view perception and multi-DOF motion planning for both Xinjiang Turpan pergolas and Changyu single-slope trellises.

Compliant End-Effector & Soft Harvesting

A specialized harvesting mechanism combining biomimetic compliant fingers, torsional shear cutters, and adaptive force feedback. It ensures zero skin puncture and protects natural fruit bloom, strictly maintaining fruit damage below 5% to match premium hand-harvest quality.

4WD4S Omnidirectional Ag-Chassis

A universal mobile agricultural chassis featuring 4-wheel drive and 4-wheel independent steering (4WD4S). It enables 360° in-situ zero-radius rotation, diagonal motion, and 90° lateral crab walking, offering exceptional maneuverability and anti-rutting performance in narrow rows (1.2–1.5 m) and muddy orchard terrains.

Pick-and-Transport Decoupled Scheduling

An intelligent operational paradigm that decouples fruit picking from orchard haulage. Dedicated picking robots focus on continuous AI-driven harvesting while autonomous transport robots handle crate shuttling in parallel, substantially eliminating idle waiting and multiplying overall orchard throughput.

Multispectral 3D Fruit Perception

An advanced sensing architecture combining multi-view RGB-D sensors, micro-range 3D point clouds, and deep learning detectors. It resolves stem 6-DOF spatial pose and calculates harvest ripeness by colorimetry and firmness even under dense foliage occlusion and variable outdoor illumination.

Smart Agri-Equipment for Modern Growers

A scalable machinery ecosystem addressing global agricultural aging and labor shortages. Through human-machine collaboration (one field operator supervising multiple robotic units), it transforms strenuous field labor into dignified, ergonomic, and digitized farm management.