Which robot will succeed Tortuga AgTech and become Ag Robot of the Year in 2025? Find out which 5 candidates have made it to the finals!
On the occasion of World FIRA 2025 nearby Toulouse, France, Future Farming will be announcing the Ag Robot of the Year 2025 Award during a ceremony on 6 February at 12:15 pm. The award, AROTY in short, will be awarded to one of the 11 commercially available field and harvest robots that were added to Future Farming’s buyers’ guide between February 2024 and January 2025. The AROTY award is also referred to as the ‘farmers’ choice’, as the expert jury consists of multiple prominent farmers from different parts of the world (see below).
The 11 manufacturers who provided the required details and respected the deadline for having their field or harvest robot for outdoor crops included for the first time, automatically qualified for the AROTY 2025 award. Field and harvest robots there were added to the catalogue prior to World FIRA 2024, are not eligible. The Future Farming editorial team and a robotics and precision agriculture researcher from Wageningen University & Research (WUR) thoroughly evaluated and assessed the 11 candidates.
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.
