These are the 5 finalists for Ag Robot of the Year 2025!

FarmRobo – iMog: FarmRobo iMog is a fully electric autonomous robot designed specifically for small-scale farming operations. In addition to its autonomous capabilities, the iMog can also be manually controlled via radio control. The robot is capable of performing a wide array of agricultural tasks and offers farmers a cost-effective solution, FarmRobo says. The iMog is compatible with various plug-and-play attachments. It has its own Power Take-Off (PTO) system.

Nature Robots – Lero.03: Lero 03 is an autonomous field robot with two drive units and a rectangular frame, the bridge, for implements. It is suitable for long-term autonomous use in the field or in field trials with interchangeable implements such as laser weeding. It has sensors and software to consistently map and assess plants in 3D while driving. In addition to its plant identification and mapping, an automatic tool change enables the robot to cultivate a large number of different crops.

Odd.Bot – Maverick: Maverick performs autonomous day and night mechanical in-row weeding solutions in (organic) carrots, onions and chicory. The solution is to replace 80 per cent of all manual weeding for up to 10 manual weeders per Maverick unit. The carrier vehicle has 4 retractable wheels that can carry up to 3 Weader weeding arms. The Weader is a delta arm robot with 3 degrees of freedom. The robot can drive up to 600 metres per hour and weighs less than 400 kilograms.

Siza Robotics – Toogo: Toogo has an electric variable track that is adjustible within a range of 1.50 to 2.20 m to ensure adaptability to different planting and bed widths. A camera positioned at the front of the robot monitors the seedlings or plants, and allows precise alignment of the tools laterally on the row. Farmers can use several implements with the machine and the robot has a three-point hitch to lift over 1,400 kilograms. The fully electric robot uses 2 batteries, totalling 70 kWh of power.

Traktorarvid – Drever 120: Drever 120 is electric and smaller than today’s machines creating less soil compaction. Drever 120 however is large enough to fit in heavy tillage in large-scale crop production. Drever is autonomous and each battery pack lasts 4 up to 12 hours. One battery pack is on charge while the other is in the machine. The big battery packs can store energy on the farm or provide services in the grid. A tractor pulls Drever 120 to the field.

Eric Adamson is co-Founder and CEO of Tortuga AgTech and winner of the AROTY 2024 award.

Chuck Baresich is the general manager of Haggerty Creek, the Ontario agribusiness and robotic equipment dealer and a driving force behind a local robotics research project.

Ian Beecher-Jones has been involved with precision agriculture for the last 20 years, providing consultancy services for multi-national manufacturers around the world. Ian is also a co-owner of JoJo’s Vineyard a 2,2 ha vineyard in South Oxfordshire.

Laurent de Buyer current position is AXEMA Générale Manager since June 2022.  Laurent has always worked in agricultural engineering from the start of his career. He has worked as a general manager at French manufacturers such as Gregoire (tillage implements), Lucas G (feed mixers), Tecnoma EXEL Group (sprayers) and Manip M-Extend Group (loaders).

Steve Pitstick farms with his son. They grow corn and soybeans on about 5000 acres in IL near Chicago. Steve is also the current Chairman of the IL Soybean Association. He has consulted on many agtech matters over the last 10 years and has a close friendship with an individual that is in the autonomous startup space.

Frederico Logemann is head of innovation & strategy at SLC since 2006. SLC is a farm in Brazil for research, development, and education. Frederico was responsible for establishing the company´s innovation department. Frederico is also a member of the Board at Instituto Caldeira, an innovation hub for Rio Grande do Sul state.

Michael Nichols runs a mixed farming business in sisters creek, Tasmania. They grow a variety of crops like potatoes, onions, poppies, pyrethrum, wheat, barley, mustard and corn. Additionally, they run a few beef cattle on the side. In 2021 his farm won the national Australian government innovation in agriculture land management award.

Bram Veldhuisen is a researcher in precision agriculture and robotics at Wageningen University & Research (WUR). He is closely involved with Farm of the Future, a Dutch initiative in which WUR and Dutch farmers of the future work together on feasible solutions to the challenges Dutch agriculture faces.

Maxence Guillaumot comes from a French arable farming family. After starting his career in the development of agricultural tractors, he joined an agricultural robotic company, as a robotics advisor. Now, he helps AgTech companies and growers to build the agriculture of tomorrow, as a product and market analyst. He also writes and films about robots for Future Farming.

René Koerhuis graduated from Wageningen University & Research in 1998. He started out his career as a ‘Precision Farming Specialist’ at a well-known machine manufacturer. Following that, he fulfilled several product management and marketing roles. He currently is an editor for several titles and websites and specialises in precision agriculture and robotics.

Mick Roberts is an agricultural journalist specialising in spray application technology, drones and precision farming. He edits Pro Operator magazine as well as www.eioperator.com a spraying information and training website.

Geert Hekkert has been editor-in-chief of Future Farming since 2019. Before that, he was editor-in-chief of Boerderij, the largest independent magazine for farmers in the Netherlands.  He also founded the National Fieldlab for Precision Farming (NPPL) project in 2017. In this project, farmers work with researchers at Wageningen University to test new technology in practice.