Root AI: Root AI raises $7.2M to overhaul the food economy with crop-picking robots

Root AI, a Woburn-based robotics company that has developed a specialized crop-picking robot, has brought in $7.2 million in seed funding. The oversubscribed round was led by Rob May of PJC, with participation from Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital, Jason Calacanis, Austin McChord of Outsiders Fund, Ryan Moore of Accomplice and Rob Leclerc of AgFunder. Root AI was co-founded at the beginning of 2018 by Josh Lessing and Ryan Knopf, both veterans of Bedford startup Soft Robotics. Its main product...