Global Agricultural Robots and Drones Forecasts 2018-2038: Technologies, Markets and Players

IDTechEx Research forecasts agricultural robots and drones to become a $35Bn industry by 2038

20-year market forecasts for all aspects of agricultural robots and drones.

The recent market report Agricultural Robots and Drones 2018-2038: Technologies, Markets and Players from business intelligence firm IDTechEx Research analyses how robotic market and technology developments will change the business of agriculture, enabling ultra-precision and/or autonomous farming and helping address key global challenges.

It develops a detailed roadmap of how robotic technology will enter into different aspects of agriculture, how it will change the way farming is done and transform its value chain, how it becomes the future of agrochemicals business and how it will modify the way we design agricultural machinery.

In particular, Agricultural Robots and Drones 2018-2038: Technologies, Markets and Players provides:

Market forecasts: The report provides granular twenty-year (2018-2038) market forecasts for 16 market categories. IDTechEx built a twenty-year model because their technology roadmap suggests that these changes will take place over long timescales. The market forecasts are often segmented by territory. All assumptions and data points are clearly explained.

More specifically, the report covers the following 16 categories: static milking robots, mobile dairy farm robotics, autonomous agricultural small robots (data scouts, weeding and multi-platform), autonomous tractors (simple guidance, autosteer, fully unmanned autonomy), robotic implements (simple and highly intelligent), robotic strawberry harvesting, robotic fresh fruit picking, and agricultural drones (data scouts, data services/analytics, multi-functional drones, unmanned spraying helicopters).

Technology assessment: A detailed technology assessment is included covering all the key robotic/drone projects, prototypes and commercial products relevant to the agricultural sector. Furthermore, the report offers an overview and assessment of key technological components such as vision sensors, LIDARs, novel end-effectors, and hyper/multi-spectral sensors. Technology roadmaps also outline how different equipment is increasingly becoming vision-enabled, intelligent and unmanned/autonomous.

This report also analyses the key enabling hardware and software technologies underpinning new robotics. For the hardware part, long-term price and performance trends in transistors, memory, energy storage, electric motors, GPS, cameras, and MEMS technology are considered. For the software side, the latest achievements in deep learning applications in various fields are covered.

Application assessment: A detailed application assessment covering dairy farms, fresh fruit harvesting, organic farming, crop protection, data mapping, seeding, nurseries, and so on. For each application/sector, a detailed overview of the existing industry is given, the needs for and the challenges facing the robotic technology are analyzed, the addressable market size is estimated by territory, and granular ten-year market projections are given.

Company profiles: More than 20 interview-based full company profiles with detailed SWOT analysis, 45 company profiles without SWOT analysis, and the works of more than 80 companies/research groups listed and summarized.

Will tractors evolve towards full unmanned autonomy?

Tractor guidance and autosteer are well-established technologies. In the short to medium terms, both will continue their growth thanks to improvements and cost reductions in RTK GPS technology. Indeed, IDTechEx Research estimate that around 700k tractors equipped with autosteer or tractor guidance will be sold in 2028. They also assess that tractor guidance sales, in unit numbers and revenue, will peak around 2027-2028 before a gradual decline commences. This is because the price differential between autosteer and tractor guidance will narrow, causing autosteer to attract more of the demand. Note that the model accounts for the declining cost of navigational autonomy (e.g., level 4 for autosteer).

Unmanned autonomous tractors have also been technologically demonstrated with large-scale market introduction largely delayed not by technical issues but by regulation, high sensor costs and the lack of farmers' trust. This will start to slowly change from 2024 onwards. However the sales will only slowly grow. IDTechEx Research estimate that around 40k unmanned fully-autonomous (level 5) tractors will be sold in 2038. The uptake will remain slow as users will only slowly become convinced that transitioning from level 4 to level 5 autonomy is value for money. This process will be helped by the rapidly falling price of the automation suite.

Overall, the model suggests that tractors with some degree of autonomy will become a $27Bn market at the vehicle level (our model also forecasts the added value that navigational autonomy provides).

The rise of fleets of small agricultural robots

Autonomous mobile robots are causing a paradigm shift in the way we envisage commercial and industrial vehicles. In traditional thinking bigger is often better. This is because bigger vehicles are faster and are thus more productive. This thinking holds true so long as each vehicle requires a human driver. The rise of autonomous mobility is however upending this long-established notion: fleets of small slow robots will replace or complement large fast manned vehicles.

These robots appear like strange creatures at first: they are small, slow, and lightweight. They therefore are less productive on a per unit basis than traditional vehicles. The key to success however lies in fleet operation. This is because the absence of a driver per vehicle enables remote fleet operation. The IDTechEx Research model suggests that there is a very achievable operator-to-fleet-size ratio at which such agrobots become commercially attractive in the medium term.

We are currently at the beginning of the beginning. Indeed, most examples of such robots are only in the prototype or early stage commercial trial phase. These robots however are now being trailed in larger numbers by major companies, whilst smaller companies are making very modest sales. The inflection point, IDTechEx suggests, will arrive in 2024 onwards. At this point, sales will rapidly grow. These small agrobot fleets themselves will also grow in capability, evolving from data acquisition to weeding to offering multiple functionalities. Overall, IDTechEx Research anticipate a market as large as $900M and $2.5Bn by 2028 and 2038, respectively. This will become a significant business but even it will remain a small subset of the overall agricultural vehicle industry.

Implements will become increasingly intelligent

Implements predominantly perform a purely mechanical functional today. There are some notable exceptions, particularly in organic farming. Here, implements are equipped with simple row-following vision technology, enabling them to actively and precisely follow rows.

This is however changing as robotic implements become highly intelligent. Indeed, early versions essentially integrated multiple computers onto the implement. These are today used for advanced vision technology enabled by machine learning (e.g. deep learning). Here, the intelligent implements learn to distinguish between crops and weeds as the implement is pulled along the field, enabling them to take site-specific weeding action.

IDTechEx Research anticipate that such implements will become increasingly common in the future. They are currently still in their early generations where the software is still learning, and the hardware is custom built and ruggedized by small firms. Recent activities including acquisitions by major firms suggest that this is changing.

Robotics finally succeed in fresh fruit harvesting?

Despite non-fresh fruit harvesting being largely mechanized, fresh fruit picking has remained mostly out of the reach of machines or robots. Picking is currently done using manual labour with machines at most playing the part of an aid that speeds up the manual work.

A limited number of fresh strawberry harvesters are already being commercially trialled and some are transitioning into commercial mode. Some versions require the farm layout to be changed and the strawberry to be trained to help the vision system identify a commercially-acceptable percentage of strawberries. Others are developing a more universal solution compatible with all varieties of strawberry farms.

Progress in fruit picking in orchards has been slower. This is because it is still a technically challenging task: the vision system needs to detect fruits inside a complex canopy whilst robotic arms need to rapidly, economically and gently pick the fruit.

This is however beginning to change, albeit slowly. Novel end effectors including those based on soft robotics that passively adapt to the fruit's shape, improved grasping algorithms underpinned by learning processes, low-cost good-enough robotic arms working in parallel, and better vision systems are all helping push this technology towards commercial viability.

IDTechEx Research forecast that commercial sales- either as equipment sales or service provision- will slowly commence from 2024 and that an inflection point will arrive around 2028. They suggest a market value for $500M per year for fresh fruit picking in orchards.

Drones bring in increased data analytics into farming

Agriculture will be a major market for drones, reaching over $420m in 2028. Agriculture is emerging as one of the main addressable markets as the drone industry pivots away from consumer drones that have become heavily commoditized in recent years.

Drones in the first instances bring aerial data acquisition technology to even small farm operators by lowering the cost of deployment compared to traditional methods like satellites. This market will grow as more farmers become familiar with drone technology and costs become lower. The market will also change as it evolves: drones will take on more functionalities such as spraying and data analytic services that help farmers make data-driven decisions will grow in value.

Note that the use of unmanned aerial technology is not just limited to drones. Indeed, unmanned remote-controlled helicopters have already been spraying rice fields in Japan since early 1990s. This is a maturing technology/sector with overall sales in Japan having plateaued. This market may however benefit from a new injection of life as suppliers diversify into new territories

Robotics in dairy farms is a multibillion dollar market already

Thousands of robotic milking parlours have already been installed worldwide, creating a $1.6bn industry. This industry will continue its grow as productivity is established. Mobile robots are also already penetrating dairy farms, helping automate tasks such as feed pushing or manure cleaning. In general, this is a major robotic market about to which little attention is paid.

For more on agricultural robotics and drones visit www.IDTechEx.com/agri

Media Contact:
Charlotte Martin
Marketing & Research Co-ordinator
c.martin@IDTechEx.com
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Report Table of Contents

1.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

1.1.

What is this report about?

1.2.

Growing population and growing demand for food

1.3.

Major crop yields are plateauing

1.4.

Employment in agriculture

1.5.

Global evolution of employment in agriculture

1.6.

Aging farmer population

1.7.

Trends in minimum wages globally

1.8.

Towards ultra precision agriculture via the variable rate technology route

1.9.

Ultra Precision farming will cause upheaval in the farming value chain

1.10.

Agricultural robotics and ultra precision agriculture will cause upheaval in agriculture's value chain

1.11.

Agriculture is one the last major industries to digitize: a look a investment in data analytics/management firms in agricultural and dairy farming

1.12.

The battle of business models between RaaS and equipment sales

1.13.

Transition towards to swarms of small, slow, cheap and unmanned robots

1.14.

Market and technology readiness by agricultural activity

1.15.

Technology progression towards driverless autonomous large-sized tractors

1.16.

Technology progression towards autonomous, ultra precision de-weeding

1.17.

Technology and progress roadmap for robotic fresh fruit harvesting

1.18.

20-year market forecasts (2018 to 2038) for agricultural robots and drones segmented by 16 technologies

1.19.

Summary of market forecasts

1.20.

Tractors evolving towards full autonomy: 2018-2038 market forecasts in unit numbers segmented by level of navigational autonomy

1.21.

Tractors evolving towards full autonomy: 2018-2038 market forecasts in market value segmented by level of navigational autonomy

1.22.

Tractors evolving towards full autonomy: 2018-2038 market forecasts segmented by level of navigational autonomy (value of automation only)

1.23.

The rise of fleets of small autonomous robots: 2018-2038 market forecasts in unit numbers segmented by level of robot functionality

1.24.

The rise of fleets of small autonomous robots: 2018-2038 market forecasts in market value segmented by level of robot functionality

1.25.

Robotic tractor-pulled implements become increasingly intelligent and multi-functional: 2018-2038 market forecasts

1.26.

Robotic fresh fruit harvesting will overcome challenges but only in the long run: 2018-2038 market forecasts for robotic fresh fruit harvesting

1.27.

Agricultural drones become multi-purpose and data services capture more value: 2018-2038 market forecasts

1.28.

Robotic milking are already a major market: 2018-2038 market forecasts

1.29.

Mobile robots and drones dominate the agricultural robotic market: 2018-2038 market forecasts segmented by mobility vs stationary robots

2.

AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY FOR LARGE TRACTORS

2.1.

Number of tractors sold globally

2.2.

Value of crop production and average farm sizes per region

2.3.

Revenues of top agricultural equipment companies

2.4.

Overview of top agricultural equipment companies

2.5.

Tractor Guidance and Autosteer Technology for Large Tractors

2.6.

Auto steer for large tractors

2.7.

Ten-year forecasts for autosteer tractors

2.8.

Master-slave or follow-me large autonomous tractors

2.9.

Fully autonomous driverless large tractors

2.10.

Fully autonomous unmanned tractors

2.11.

Technology progression towards driverless autonomous large-sized tractors

2.12.

Handsfree Hectar: fully autonomous human-free barley farming

2.13.

Tractors evolving towards full autonomy: 2018-2038 market forecasts in unit numbers segmented by level of navigational autonomy

2.14.

Tractors evolving towards full autonomy: 2018-2038 market forecasts in market value segmented by level of navigational autonomy

2.15.

Tractors evolving towards full autonomy: 2018-2038 market forecasts segmented by level of navigational autonomy (value of automation only)

3.

AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC AGRICULTURAL PLATFORMS

3.1.

Autonomous small-sized agricultural robots

3.2.

FENDT (AGCO) launches swarms of autonomous agrobots

3.3.

Autonomous agricultural robotic platforms

4.

AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC WEED KILLING

4.1.

From manned, broadcast towards autonomous, ultra precision de-weeding

4.2.

Crop protection chemical sales per top suppliers globally

4.3.

Sales of top global and Chinese herbicide suppliers

4.4.

Global herbicide consumption data

4.5.

Glyphosate consumption and market globally

4.6.

Regulations will impact the market for robotic weed killers?

4.7.

Penetration of herbicides in different field crops

4.8.

Growing challenge of herbicide-resistant weeds

4.9.

Autonomous weed killing robots

4.10.

Autonomous robotic weed killers

4.11.

Organic farming

4.12.

Robotic mechanical weeding for organic farming

4.13.

Technology progression towards autonomous, ultra precision de-weeding

4.14.

The rise of fleets of small autonomous robots: 2018-2038 market forecasts in unit numbers segmented by level of robot functionality

4.15.

The rise of fleets of small autonomous robots: 2018-2038 market forecasts in market value segmented by level of robot functionality

5.

ROBOTIC IMPLEMENTS: WEEDING, VEGETABLE THINNING, AND HARVESTING

5.1.

Autonomous lettuce thinning robots

5.2.

Why asparagus harvesting should be automated

5.3.

Automatic asparagus harvesting

5.4.

Robotic/Automatic asparagus harvesting

5.5.

Addressable market size for robotic lettuce thinning and weeding service provision

5.6.

Robotic tractor-pulled implements become increasingly intelligent and multi-functional: 2018-2038 market forecasts

6.

ROBOTIC FRESH FRUIT PICKING

6.1.

Field crop and non-fresh fruit harvesting is largely mechanized

6.2.

Fresh fruit picking remains largely manual

6.3.

Machining aiding humans in fresh fruit harvesting have not evolved in the past 50 years

6.4.

Emerging robotic fresh fruit harvest assist technologies

6.5.

Robot orchard data scouts and yield estimators

6.7.

Robotic fresh apple harvesting

6.8.

Fresh fruit harvesting robots

6.9.

Technology and progress roadmap for robotic fresh fruit harvesting

6.10.

Addressable market size for robotic fresh apple-picking service provision

6.11.

Robotic fresh fruit harvesting will overcome challenges but only in the long run: 2018:2038 market forecasts for robotic fresh fruit harvesting

6.12.

Robotic fresh strawberry harvesting

6.13.

Evolution of fresh strawberry harvesting robots

6.14.

Fully autonomous strawberry picking robots with soft grippers

6.15.

Addressable market size for robotic fresh strawberry-picking service provision

6.16.

Ten-year market forecasts for robotic fresh strawberry harvesting by territory

7.

VINE PRUNING ROBOTS

7.1.

Autonomous robotic vineyard scouts and pruners

8.

GREENHOUSES AND NURSERIES

8.1.

Autonomous robotics for greenhouses and nurseries

9.

ROBOTIC SEEDERS

9.1.

Variable rate technology for precision seed planting

9.2.

Robotic seed planting

10.

ROBOTIC DAIRY FARMING

10.1.

Global trends and averages for dairy farm sizes

10.2.

Global number and distribution of dairy cows by territory

10.3.

Robotic milking parlours

10.4.

Overview of robotic milking parlours

10.5.

Autonomous robotic feed pushers

10.6.

Alternatives to autonomous robotic feed pushers

10.7.

Autonomous robotic shepherds

10.8.

Autonomous manure cleaning robots

10.9.

Ten-year market forecasts for robotic milking systems by country

10.10.

Robotic milking are already a major market: 2018-2038 market forecasts

11.

AERIAL DATA COLLECTION AND DRONES

11.1.

Drones: dominant designs begin to emerge

11.2.

Drones: moving past the hype?

11.3.

Drones: company formation slows down

11.4.

Drones: global geographical spread of companies

11.5.

Drones: platforms commoditize?

11.6.

Drones: market forecasts

11.7.

Drones: application pipeline

11.8.

Satellite vs plane vs drone mapping and scouting

11.9.

Benefits of using aerial imaging in farming

11.10.

Unmanned drones in rice field pest control in Japan

11.11.

Unmanned drones and helicopters for field spraying

11.12.

Unmanned agriculture drones on the market

11.13.

Comparing different agricultural drones on the market

11.14.

Regulation barriers coming down?

11.15.

Agricultural drones: the emerging value chain

11.16.

Core company information on key agricultural drone companies

11.17.

Software opportunities: Vertical focused actionable analytics

11.18.

Drones: increasing autonomy

11.19.

Ten-year market forecasts for agricultural drones

12.

ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES: GRIPPER TECHNOLOGY

12.1.

Suction-based end effector technologies for fresh fruit harvesting

12.2.

Simple and effective robotic end effectors for fruit harvesting

12.3.

Soft robotics based end effector technologies for fresh fruit handling

12.4.

Pneumatic soft actuator: extensible layer + fiber

12.5.

Soft actuator: self-contained McKibbern-type muscle

12.6.

Shape Deposition Manufacturing (SDM) Compliant Joint

12.7.

Fabrication processes for soft robotic actuators

12.8.

Robotic end effector technologies for fresh fruit harvesting

12.9.

Dexterous robotic hands for agricultural robotics

12.10.

Examples of dexterous robotic hands

13.

ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES: NAVIGATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES (RTK, LIDAR, LASERS AND OTHERS)

13.1.

RTK systems: operation, performance and value chain

13.2.

Lidar- basic operation principles

13.3.

Review of LIDARs on the market or in development

13.4.

Performance comparison of different LIDARs on the market or in development

13.5.

Assessing suitability of different LIDAR for agricultural robotic applications

13.6.

Hyperspectral image sensors

13.7.

Hyperspectral imaging and precision agriculture

13.8.

Hyperspectral imaging in other applications

13.9.

Hyperspectral imaging sensors on the market

13.10.

Common multi-spectral sensors used with agricultural drones

13.11.

GeoVantage

13.12.

Why is new robotics becoming possible now? A hardware point of view

13.13.

Why is new robotics possible now?

13.14.

Transistors (computing): price evolution

13.15.

Transistors (computing): performance evolution

13.16.

Memory (RAM, hard driver and flash): price evolution in $/Mbit

13.17.

Memory: performance evolution in Gbit/ sq inch

13.18.

Sensors (Camera): price evolution

13.19.

Sensors (MEMS): price evolution

13.20.

Sensors (GPS): price and market adoption (in unit numbers) evolution of GPS sensors

13.21.

Is Lidar on a similar path as other robotic sensor technologies?

13.22.

Li ion battery: performance evolution in Wh/Kg and Wh/L

13.23.

Energy storage technologies: price evolution in $/kWh by sector

13.24.

Electric motors: evolution of size of a given output since 1910

13.25.

Artificial intelligence: waves of development

13.26.

Terminologies explained: AI, machine learning, artificial neural networks, deep neural networks

13.27.

Rising interesting in deep learning

13.28.

Algorithm training process in a single layer

13.29.

Towards deep learning by deepening the neutral network

13.30.

The main varieties of deep learning approaches explained

13.31.

Evolution of deep learning

13.32.

The rise of the big data quantified: fuel for deep learning applications

13.33.

Examples of milestones in deep learning AI: word recognition supresses human level

13.34.

Deepening the neutral network to increase accuracy rate

13.35.

GPUs: an enabling component for deep learning?

13.36.

Examples of milestones in deep learning AI: translation approaching human level performance

13.37.

Examples of milestones in deep learning AI: leap in progress in robotic grasping

13.38.

What is 'good enough' accuracy in deep learning?

13.39.

RoS and RoS-I: major open source movement slashing development costs and enticing OEMs to finally engage

13.40.

Robotic Operating System (RoS): Examples of cutting edge projects

14.

COMPANY INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES

14.1.

Interview based company profiles

14.1.1.

Agrobot

14.1.2.

Blue River Technology

14.1.3.

DeepField Robotics

14.1.4.

F. Poulsen Engineering ApS

14.1.5.

Fresh Fruit Robotics

14.1.6.

Harvest CROO Robotics

14.1.7.

Ibex Automation

14.1.8.

miRobot

14.1.9.

Naio Technologies

14.1.10.

Nippon Signal

14.1.11.

Parrot

14.1.12.

Precision Hawk

14.1.13.

Quanergy

14.1.14.

Robotic Solutions

14.1.15.

Shadow Solutions

14.1.16.

Soft Robotics Inc

14.1.17.

Stream Technologies

14.1.18.

SwarmFarm Robotics

14.1.19.

Tillet and Hague

14.1.20.

Velodyne LIDAR

14.2.

Company Profiles

14.2.1.

3D Robotics

14.2.2.

AGCO

14.2.3.

AgEagle

14.2.4.

AgJunction Inc

14.2.5.

Agribotix

14.2.6.

Airinov

14.2.7.

Autonomous Tractor Cooperation

14.2.8.

Beijing UniStrong Science and Technology (BUST)

14.2.9.

Case IH

14.2.10.

Dogtooth Technologies

14.2.11.

Empire Robotics

14.2.12.

Farmbot

14.2.13.

Festo Gamaya

14.2.14.

GrabIT

14.2.15.

Harvest Automation

14.2.16.

Headwall

14.2.17.

HerdDog

14.2.18.

HETO

14.2.19.

HiPhen

14.2.20.

Hortau

14.2.21.

John Deere

14.2.22.

Kinzes Autonomous Harvest System

14.2.23.

Kubota Corp

14.2.24.

L'Avion Jaune

14.2.25.

LeddarTech

14.2.26.

Lely

14.2.27.

LemnaTec

14.2.28.

Magnificant

14.2.29.

Mavrx

14.2.30.

McRobotic

14.2.31.

MicaSense

14.2.32.

Motorleaf

14.2.33.

NavCom

14.2.34.

Near Earth Autonomy

14.2.35.

Novariant

14.2.36.

Orbital Insight

14.2.37.

Pix4D

14.2.38.

Prospera

14.2.39.

Qubit Systems

14.2.40.

Robotics Plus

14.2.41.

Robotnik

14.2.42.

Scanse

14.2.43.

senseFly

14.2.44.

Sentra

14.2.45.

SkySquirrel

14.2.46.

SpelR

14.2.47.

Trimble

14.2.48.

UAV-IQ Precision Agriculture

14.2.49.

Urban Crops

14.2.50.

URSULA Agriculture

14.2.51.

VineRangers

14.2.52.

Yanmar

14.2.53.

Yara


 


ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES: LONG-TERM PRICE AND PERFORMANCE TRENDS IN KEY HARDWARE COMPONENTS ( TRANSISTORS, MEMORY, CAMERA, MEMS, GPS, BATTERIES, ELECTRIC MOTORS, ETC)
 

ENABLING TECHNOLOGY: SOFTWARE, DEEP LEARNING AND BIG DATA
 

TABLES AND FIGURES

  • Evolution of agricultural machinery from manual hoes through to robots
  • Population growth between 1950 and 2050 segmented by development stage
  • Income growth of developed and developing countries between 2005 and 2050
  • Expansion in global arable land between 1961 to 2050 in million ha
  • Grain yield improvements by territory for wheat, maize and rice between 1950 to 2012
  • Share of labour force working in agriculture between 1300 to 2000 for England, Netherlands, Italy France and Poland
  • Output per unit of labour in agriculture between 1961 to 2001 by country
  • Global map of agricultural employment for 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s
  • Average age of principal farm operator in the USA between 192 to 2120
  • Average age of different farmer groups in Australia
  • Correlation between minimum wage and GPD per person at PPP
  • Minimum wage level in $/hr by country
  • Real hourly wage for non-supervisory hired farm works in the US between 1990 and 2012
  • Technology roadmap showing progression from constant rate technology, to variable rate technology and now ultra-precision technology
  • Existing and emerging value chain of agriculture showing how robotic technologies shift value away from traditional players
  • Assessing the pros and cons of RaaS vs. equipment sale model
  • Evolution of agriculture machinery from heavy, fast, large to light, slow and small
  • Soil compaction depth as a function of year caused by increased vehicle weight
  • Table showing that new robots need to be 24 times cheaper than traditional tractor models
  • Market and technology readiness chart placing different agricultural robotic technology on levels ranging from proof-of-concept to fully maturity
  • Market and technology readiness chart placing different agricultural robotic companies on levels ranging from proof-of-concept to fully maturity
  • Technology roadmap showings technology progression from manned tractor to tractor guidance to manned autosteer to master-slave and to fully autonomous tractors
  • Technology roadmap showing progress from manned aerial vehicles towards fully autonomous ultra-precision weeding
  • Technology roadmap showings the progression of robotic technology in fresh fruit harvesting
  • Ten-year market forecasts segmented by 14 agricultural robotics categories
  • Number of tractors sold globally between 2010 and 2014 by country
  • Number of tractors sold in the USA and Canada by horse power level between 2006 and 2015
  • Total value of crop production in $bn between 2009 and 2016 fir EU, USA, Brazil, CIS, China and India
  • Table showing the number and average size of farms in USA, EU, Brazil, CIS, China and India
  • Revenues in $bn of leading tractor suppliers including Yanmar, Deutz Fahr, Mihandra, AGCO, John Deere, Kubota Tractor Corp., CNN Industrial and so on
  • 5- or 10-year annual sales for Kubota, John Deere, AGCO, Mihandra, CNH Industrial, Deutz Fahr and so on
  • RTK GPS-enabled auto-steer technology
  • Number of GNSS receivers in used agriculture between 2006 and 2023 segmented by tractor guidance, automatic steering, VRT and asset management
  • Market value (in $m) for GNSS receivers used in agriculture between 2006 and 2023 segmented by tractor guidance, automatic steering, VRT and asset management
  • Unit price ($/unit) of GNSS receivers used in agriculture between 2006 and 2023 segmented by tractor guidance, automatic steering, VRT and asset management
  • Master-slave autonomous tractors by Yanmar, Fendt, Case IT, John Deere and Kinze Autonomy
  • Fully autonomous tractors by Yanmar, Kubota Corp., and Autonomous Tractor Corp.
  • Technology roadmap showings technology progression from manned tractor to tractor guidance to manned autosteer to master-slave and to fully autonomous tractors
  • Ten-year market forcasts for tractor guidance, autosteer and fully autonomous tractors/combines
  • Agbot II by QUT
  • Kongskilde Vibro Crop Robotti by by Kongskilde Industries A/S and Conpleks Innovation.
  • Astrix autonomous agricultural robot by Adigo
  • Horibit autonomous agricultural robot by Aarhus University
  • Ladybird autonomous agricultural robot by Australian Centre of Field Studies
  • Autonomous tractors by the The Robot Fleers for Highly Effective Agriculture and Forestry Management project
  • ATRV-2
  • Autonomous agricultural robot KU Leuven and FMTC
  • Autonomous agricultural robot by Rowbot for cornfields
  • Ten-year market forecasts for autonomous robotic data scouts
  • Technology evolution from manual hoeing to large-scale broadcast spraying to unmanned drone spraying to manned weeding with high precision and finally to autonomous weeding with ultra-high precision
  • Crop protection revenues for top ten global agrochemical suppliers including Monsanto, Sumitomo Chemical, Agricultural Solutions Ltd, DuPont, Bayer, Syngenta, BASF, DOW, Nufran
  • Crop protection revenues for top 20 Chinease suppliers including Zheijang Wynca Chemical Industrial Group, Zhejiam Jinfanda BioChemical, Nutrichem, Sichuan Leshan Fuhua Tonga Agrochemical and so on
  • 2014 and 2015 herbicide sales for Monsanto, Sumitomo Chemical, Agricultural Solutions Ltd, DuPont, Bayer, Syngenta, BASF, DOW, Nufran
  • Revenue map of Top ten Chinese producers of glyphosate
  • Historical data on global herbicide consumption in tonnes between 2004 and 2014 segmented by country
  • Glyphosate global consumption in agricultural and non-agricultural activities between 1994 and 2014 in Kg
  • Market size for glyphosate in $bn between 2004 and 20014
  • Historical growth in adoption of GE-HE seeds for major field crops such as soybeans, cotton, and corn
  • Increase in the number of herbicide-resistant weed species between 1950 and today
  • Total area in acres covered with herbicide-resistant weeds in the US between 1998 and 2014
  • Geographical spread of herbicide-resistant weeds in the US by state
  • Autonomous robotic weeder
  • Development of organic land in million ha
  • Distribution of organic land between different uses
  • Robotic weeding implements for organic farming
  • Ten-year market forecast for robotic weeding by technology type
  • Autonomous asparagus harvesting robots
  • Autonomous lettuce thinning robots
  • Ten-year market forecasts for robotic lettuce thinning and vegetable harvesting by technology and territory
  • Non-fresh fruit harvesting machines
  • Machines aiding manual fresh fruit harvesting
  • Robotic bin follower
  • Robotic orchard data scouts
  • Emerging robotic fresh fruit harvest assist technologies
  • Robotic fresh apple harvesting
  • Robotic fresh citrus harvesting
  • Fresh fruit harvesting robots
  • Addressable market size for robotic fresh apple-picking service provision
  • Ten-year market forecasts for robotic fresh citrus/apple harvesting by territory
  • Robotic fresh strawberry harvesting
  • Addressable market size for robotic fresh strawberry-picking service provision
  • Ten-year market forecasts for robotic fresh strawberry harvesting by territory
  • Autonomous robotic vineyard scouts and pruners
  • Autonomous robotics for greenhouses and nurseries
  • Schematic showing the concept of VRT for seed planting
  • Robotic seed planting
  • Map of average dairy farm sizes worldwide
  • Average size and number of dairy farms in the US between 1970 and 2007
  • Global number and distribution of dairy cows by country
  • Addressable market for robotic milking machines by country
  • Addressable market for robotic feed pushers by country
  • Lely's robotic milking machine
  • Robotic milking machines
  • Autonomous robotic feed pushers
  • Robotic manure cleaning
  • Alternatives to autonomous robotic feed pushers
  • Autonomous robotic shepherds
  • Ten-year market forecasts for robotic milking systems by country
  • Ten-year market forecasts for automatic feed pusher and other mobile robotics in dairy farming
  • Table comparing the resolution, image acquisition cost, image processing cost and minimum order size for satellite imaging
  • Annual sales of unmanned spraying helicopters in Japan
  • Area of rice paddies in Japan sprayed by unmanned helicopters between in Ha
  • Unmanned drones and helicopters for field spraying
  • Unmanned agriculture drones on the market
  • Table comparing different agricultural drones on the market on the basis of price, type, autonomy, cruise speed, flight time and so on
  • Agricultural drones: the emerging value chain
  • Core company information on key agricultural drone companies
  • Ten-year market forecasts for agricultural drones
  • Suction-based end effectors by Vision Robotics
  • Suction-based end effectors by Abundant Robotics
  • Other novel end-effectors in development
  • Soft robotic grippers by Soft Robotics, Festo, Empire Robotic, Pneubotics
  • Dexterous robotic by Shadow Robotics, Schunk, Allegro, Willow Garage and so on
  • Value chain of RTK GPS Technology from signal service provides to receiver manufacturers to device vendors to tractor companies
  • Performance levels of DGPS, OmniStar XP/HP and RTK technologies
  • Basic operational mechanism of LIDAR
  • LIDAR examples
  • Table comparing the performance of different LIDARs on the market or in development
  • Table assessing suitability of different LIDAR for agricultural robotic applications
  • Hyperspectral imaging and precision agriculture
  • Hyperspectral imaging sensors on the market
  • Common multi-spectral sensors used with agricultural drones
  • Ten-year market forecasts for all agricultural robots and drones segmented by type and/or function
  • Ten-year market forecasts for agricultural robots and drones segmented by type and/or function
  • Ten-year market forecasts for autonomous and mobile agricultural robots and drones segmented by type and/or function
  • Ten-year market forecasts for tractor guidance, autosteer and fully autonomous tractors/combines
  • Ten-year market forecasts for autonomous robotic data scouts
  • Ten-year market forecast for robotic weeding by technology type
  • Ten-year market forecasts for robotic lettuce thinning and vegetable harvesting by technology and territory
  • Ten-year market forecasts for robotic fresh citrus/apple harvesting by territory
  • Ten-year market forecasts for robotic fresh strawberry harvesting by territory
  • Ten-year market forecasts for robotic milking systems by country
  • Ten-year market forecasts for automatic feed pusher and other mobile robotics in dairy farming

Ten-year market forecasts for agricultural drones
 

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