These Are the 5 Finalists for the Ag Robot of the Year 2024

By Future Farming

For the second year in a row, Future Farming and World FIRA are awarding the Ag Robot of the Year, the most promising newcomer to the Future Farming robot catalogue. And these are the 5 finalists!

Five field and harvest robots capable of automating one or more operations in outdoor grown crops have made it to the finals of the second global Ag Robot of the Year award election. The five finalists were selected by the Future Farming editorial team and a researcher robotics and precision agriculture from Wageningen University & Research (WUR) after a thorough evaluation of the 12 candidates. These 12 candidates, field and harvest robots that were added to Future Farming’s buyers’ guide between February 2023 and January 2024, automatically qualified for the Ag Robot of the Year 2024 award.

These are the five finalists in alphabetical order:

Andela Robot Weeder ARW-912. The ARW-912 is a fully robotized weeding machine with 12 weeding units and a working width of 9 meters suitable for crops in row culture.
Digital workbench Tipard 1800. Tipard 1800 is an autonomous multi-carrier platform for the automation of entire process chains, partially in arable farming and fully in special crop cultivation such as drilling, fertilizing, weed and pest control and harvesting.
Ekobot WEAI. WEAI works with high precision which is especially important in rows of vegetables.
Tensorfield Agriculture Jetty. Jetty performs herbicide-free precision thermal weeding in high density row crops such as carrots and spring mix.
Tortuga AgTech F and G. Tortuga’s platform combines AI, purpose-driven design and on-the-ground operations.

Read more about the five finalists at Future Farming.