Pre-seed · Seeking funding & partners

Harvest latex
without consuming
the bark.

RubBOT harvests latex with a puncture instead of a knife cut, all night long.

Talk to us See the field work
RubBOTHarvested15:00
  • #1natural rubber producer in the world
  • 40–50%of revenue goes to tappers
  • 1.7Mrubber-farming households
A tapping panel damaged by knife tapping
Real tapping panel, Surat Thani

Rubber still runs on knives
and 2 a.m. shifts

  • Tappers are disappearing

    An ageing workforce, and the young don’t come back.

  • Half the revenue, gone

    40–50% is shared with the tapper.

  • Every cut takes bark

    Damaged panels, shorter tree life.

Puncture, don’t cut.

A small hole instead of shaving bark off every day.

  • Keeps the bark, keeps the tree
  • Works at night and in the rain
  • Knows every tree
Knife tapping
RubBOT puncture
Year 2

Concept illustration · under test with rubber researchers

200 rai, far fewer hands

Concept · prototype in development

Today

7
hand tappersKnife tapping, in the middle of the night

With RubNex

1 + 4
RubWORK + RubBOTOne operator running four robots

200-rai plantation · concept

From the field

We go to the farm, measure and test ourselves.

Testing prototype parts on the farm
Field visit, Surat Thani
Studying real tapping panels
Sampling soil and rubber leaves
Clone trial plot, Surat Thani Rubber Research Center
Monitoring and surveying rubber plantations
The family plantation during leaf fall
A tapping panel damaged by poor-quality tapping
My mother and her rubber farm
Recording a tapping panel
Study and trial plot, Uthai Thani

Progress

  1. Early 2025 · DoneCustomer survey, pain points & market validation
  2. Jun 2026 · DonePrototype I started
  3. Sep 2026 · DonePrototype I complete · feedback
  4. Sep 2026 · DoneTechnical co-founder · field sites in 5 provinces
  5. Sep 2026 · DoneSoil & leaf baseline
  6. Oct 2026 · NowPrototype II underway
Surat Thani Uthai Thani Ratchaburi Rayong Nakhon Ratchasima
Field sites · 5

12-month plan · 2027

  1. Q1Prototype II on real trees
  2. Q2Measure against control trees, refine
  3. Q3RubBOT runs on its own at a field site
  4. Q4Pilot with partner farms

Seeking funding and partners to deliver this plan

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Team

Kasidis Lhosupasirirat

Founder

Kasidis Lhosupasirirat (Keng)

  • Grew up on a rubber farm in Ban Na San, Surat Thani
  • Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University
  • Petroleum Geologist
Taweeporn Maneesin

Technical co-founder

Taweeporn Maneesin (Peter)

  • Mechatronics Engineering, KMUTNB
  • Robotics engineer

We’re looking for

  • Chemists
  • Rubber researchers
  • Mechanical engineers
Join the team

Talk to us

Farm owners, researchers and investors, just reach out.

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