HistoryHistory
- 2015 - January
- Nileworks established
- - October
- Completed drone flight control system (flight controller)
- 2016 - June
- Completed fully automatic flight control system (automatic flight, automatic chemical spray pump ON/OFF)
- 2017 - April
- Fully automatic flight control system: Successful flight with centimeter accuracy / Also equipped with automatic spraying function adjusted according to flight speed
- - May
- Adopted system in first external project to consider measures of safety for robotic technology in the agriculture, forestry and fisheries industries
- - October
- Jointly developed "intelligent battery" exclusively for agricultural drones with Maxell Corporation
- - October
- First external captial raise
- 2018 - May
- Continuing from the previous year's project to measure safety for robotic technology
- - July
- Agricultural drone “Nile-T18” launched
- - August
- Camera for surveying growth via photosynthesis rate measurement intergrated into to system
- - October
- Won the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Award at the 8th Robot Awards in Japan
- 2019 - February
- Second external captial raise completed
- - May
- Begun mass-producing drones at VAIO Corporation
- - July
- Agricultural drone "Nile-T19" sales begin/Japan's first aircraft equipped with LTE communication put into practical use
- - September
- Rice growth simulator prototype completed
- 2020 - January
- Supported by the Innovation TOKYO Project to Open Up the Future (Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Industrial and Labor Affairs)
- - June
- Supported/Approval by the Collaborative Support Project to Strengthen Commercial and Service Competitiveness (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry New Collaborative Support Project) *Agricultural drone sharing demonstration project
- - July
- Agricultural drone “Nile-T20” launched
- - December
- Third external capital raise completed
- 2021 - April
- Support/Approval garnered from High-spec Drone Development Consortium of Jpan (Development of safe and secure agricultural high-spec drones and usage technology)
- 2022 - May
- Agricultural platform “NileBank” service launched
- 2023 - January
- Fourth external capital raise completed
- - April
- Farming matching “Bridge Boost” service launched
- - August
- Agri-assist service launched
- - October
- Agricultural drone “Nile-JZ” launched
- 2024 - April
- Agricultural drone “Nile-JZ Plus” launched(Variable rate application compatible)