aid: agrist
name: Agrist
description: >-
  AGRIST Inc. (AGRIST株式会社) is a Japanese deep-tech agricultural robotics company founded in October
  2019 and headquartered in Shintomi-cho, Koyu-gun, Miyazaki Prefecture, with an AI robot farm in
  Higashikushira (Kagoshima), an AI robot test facility in Shintomi-cho and the AGRIST Joso Farm in
  Joso City, Ibaraki. Its flagship product is "L", an automatic bell-pepper harvesting robot that
  travels along overhead wires strung between greenhouse rows rather than on ground rails, using
  multiple cameras and a proprietary computer-vision model to find and cut harvest-ready fruit
  through layered foliage; a cucumber harvesting robot followed. Around the hardware the company
  sells AGRIST Ai, a greenhouse cultivation-support and yield-forecasting system fed by robot patrol
  data and environmental sensors, and it operates its own farms plus Smart Agri University (SAU), a
  nine-month smart-agriculture training program. AGRIST is venture-backed through a Series B that
  includes Mizuho Capital, Global Infrastructure Management, Nippon Steel Kowa Real Estate, Nippon
  Express Holdings, Takamiya and Sparx, and has taken more than 27 domestic and international awards
  including a CES 2023 Innovation Award and a Japanese Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and
  Fisheries Award. It is a robotics and farm-operations business, not a software vendor: as of
  2026-09-13 it publishes no developer program, no public API, no SDK and no machine-readable API
  contract of any kind.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/agrist/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
image: https://agrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/logo.png
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-09-13'
modified: '2026-09-13'
tags:
- Company
- Agriculture
- AgTech
- Robotics
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Vision
- Smart Farming
- Greenhouse
- Automation
- Food Tech
- Deep Tech
- Japan
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/agrist-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://agrist.com/
- type: About
  url: https://agrist.com/about-agrist-english
- type: Summary
  url: https://agrist.com/corporate/company
- type: Solutions
  url: https://agrist.com/products
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://agrist.com/news
- type: Blog
  url: https://agrist.com/archives/category/column
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://agrist.com/feed
- type: PressReleases
  url: https://agrist.com/archives/category/pressrelease
- type: FAQ
  url: https://agrist.com/faq
- type: ContactUs
  url: https://agrist.com/contact
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://agrist.com/privacy-policy
- type: Careers
  url: https://agrist.com/recruit
- type: Sustainability
  url: https://agrist.com/sustainability
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/agrist/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/agrist_inc
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/c/AGRIST_INC
- type: Instagram
  url: https://www.instagram.com/agrist_inc/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-13'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 2
  pass: local-v3
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: >-
    AGRIST sells harvesting robots and the bundled AGRIST Ai cultivation-support system directly to
    greenhouse farmers as a turnkey package, and its 48-page WordPress site has no developer,
    documentation, API or integration section at all — contract discovery against agrist.com and
    www.agrist.com returned a hard 404 for /openapi.json, /llms.txt, /apis.json and every named
    /.well-known/ path, the only certificate-issued subdomain (farmpr.agrist.com) no longer resolves
    in DNS, and the single machine-readable surface on the domain is the stock WordPress core REST
    API at /wp-json whose 231 routes are entirely CMS and plugin namespaces (wp/v2, oembed, Wordfence,
    Site Kit, SiteOrigin), not an AGRIST product.
  evidence:
  - url: https://agrist.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://agrist.com/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://agrist.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://agrist.com/wp-sitemap-posts-page-1.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://agrist.com/wp-json/
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-09-13'