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Vote for the 2025 Ag Robot of the Year

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Photo: Canva
Photo: Canva

For the third year in a row, Future Farming and World FIRA are awarding the Ag Robot of the Year, the most promising newcomer in 2025. Which is your personal favourite?

5 innovative field and harvest robots have made it to the finals of the third global Ag Robot of the Year award. These robots, designed to automate tasks in outdoor crop production, were selected by the Future Farming editorial team and an expert in robotics and precision agriculture from Wageningen University & Research (WUR).

The finalists were chosen after a detailed evaluation of 11 eligible candidates—field and harvest robots added to Future Farming’s Buyers’ Guide between February 2024 and January 2025.

Public vote

While the expert jury will decide the official winner, we want to know which robot is your favourite! The winner of the public vote will receive:

  • A physical award presented at World FIRA 2025 on 6 February in Toulouse, France;
  • A free one-year online subscription to Future Farming;
  • The honor of being the 2025 reader’s choice Ag Robot.
  • Voting closes on 2 February 2025 – make sure your voice is heard! Scroll down to read a brief description and see an image of each robot.  


    AROTY public voting 2025

    Vote here for your personal favourite Ag Robot of the Year 2025(Required)
    Cast your vote before the end of February 2nd. Please note: Each individual can and may vote only once!
    We only use your email address to prevent double voting. Once the voting is over, all data will be deleted.

    Meet the finalists

    These are the 5 finalists in alphabetical order:

    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.


    Why vote?

    The Ag Robot of the Year award supports farmers worldwide in identifying the best robotic solutions for their needs. Public voting is your chance to celebrate innovation and showcase the robots you believe are shaping the future of agriculture. Don’t miss your chance to vote—help us honour the best in ag robotics!

    Vote now and join us in Toulouse on 6 February 2025 for the announcement of the winners.

    Hekkert
    Geert Hekkert Chief editor of Future Farming