Field robot landscape diversifies: Discover the 2025 ag-robot buyers’ guide
As the year draws to a close, Future Farming unveils updates to its 2025 Field and Harvest Robot Buyers’ Guide, now featuring 8 exciting new entries. With the ag robotics market maturing, this latest edition highlights not only new players but also a broader range of technologies, tailored to meet the diverse needs of modern farmers.
The annual effort of the Future Farming team to provide farmers and growers, contractors and other professionals interested in ag robotics and automation with a refreshed and expanded field and harvest robot catalogue, has so far resulted in 8 brand new and exciting additions. Contrary to earlier editions and additions, the diversity and also versatility of the field robot landscape is increasing, resulting in more various autonomous and robotic solutions for a wider range of farmers across the world.
Commercially available and price tagged
Let’s briefly wind back to emphasise why we put so much effort in compiling the most comprehensive field and harvest robot buyers’ guide available. Automation and robotics often come with significant amounts of investments and trust in machines as well as in mostly young companies. Technology readiness levels (TRLs) sometimes tend to prevail over market readiness levels and that’s why Future Farming is keen on distinguishing farmer friendly solutions from farmer frightening ones. For now, we do this by selecting on commercial availability and a price indication, and by visiting and closely following farmers across the world to bring stories about ag robotics and automation in real farm life. Followed by (independent) testing in future.
The fact that participating solutions have to be commercially available, leads to yearly challenges such as bankruptcies, production halts and transfer of intellectual property (IP). The conclusions of these challenges can be found here.
More diverse participants
While multipurpose or multifunctional field robots still account for the majority of the participants (37 out of 60 last year), this year’s new participants offer a wider variety of solutions. Nonetheless it is the compact Agovor GOVOR autonomous tractor designed for horticulture and farming practices from New Zealand that has been added to start with.
Lero.03 from German company Nature Robots is a lightweight tool carrier developed for various applications such as open fields, market gardening, orchards and vineyards.
French SIZA Robotics’ TOOGO is another new addition to the multipurpose category. TOOGO is a tool carrier equipped with a category 2 three-point hitch and a PTO.
Traktorarvid from Sweden introduces its electrically powered autonomous farm machine and energy system Drever 120.
Vineatrac from Swiss STEVmotion is designed to prepare soils, hoe weeds and spray vine trees and grapes in steep vineyards with slopes up to 60 per cent.
Icaro X4 from Italian manufacturer Free Green Nature (part of Maschio Gaspardo) is specialised in the control of fungal diseases in vineyards with UV-C lighting.
Odd.Bot from the Netherlands offers its Maverick field robot for in-row weeding in carrots, onions and chicory.
Another new participant from the Netherlands is the Transplanter from Tolenaars Transplanting Services (TTS). This machine transplants young seedlings in the ground at high speeds. No new harvest robots meet the requirements to participate.
It is not too late to become Ag Robot of the Year 2025
New participants that have been added to the catalogue since World FIRA 2024, automatically qualify for the Ag Robot of the Year 2025 Award and are able to succeed last year’s award winner Tortuga AgTech. So if you offer a field or harvest robot that qualifies and if you want to be on stage during the 2025 Award celebration ceremony at World FIRA from 4 to 6 February in Toulouse, France, then contact us as soon as possible via futurefarming@misset.com!
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