Scythe Robotics confirms state incentive offer

LONGMONT — Scythe Robotics Inc., the Longmont developer of autonomous commercial lawn mowers, has confirmed to BizWest that it is the unnamed company that last week received an incentive offer from the state to expand its production facility.

The Colorado Economic Development Commission signed off unanimously on the offer of $372,000 over five years from its strategic fund to a company then referred to using the pseudonym Project Eldorado in an effort to coax the firm into choosing Longmont for its planned 50,000-square-foot manufacturing site. 

It is the commission’s practice not to identify companies that the Colorado Office of Economic Development…