| 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. |
The battle of business models between RaaS and equipment sales |
| 1.12. |
Transition towards to swarms of small, slow, cheap and unmanned robots |
| 1.13. |
Market and technology readiness by agricultural activity |
| 1.14. |
Technology progression towards driverless autonomous large-sized tractors |
| 1.15. |
Technology progression towards autonomous, ultra precision de-weeding |
| 1.16. |
Technology and progress progression roadmap for robotic fresh fruit harvesting |
| 1.17. |
Ten-year market forecasts for all agricultural robots and drones segmented by type and/or function |
| 1.18. |
Ten-year market forecasts for autonomous and mobile agricultural robots and drones segmented by type and/or function |
| 2. |
AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY FOR LARGE TRACTORS |
| 2.1. |
Number tractors sold globally |
| 2.2. |
Value of crop production and average farm sizes per region |
| 2.3. |
Overview of top agricultural equipment companies |
| 2.4. |
Tractor Guidance and Autosteer Technology for Large Tractors |
| 2.5. |
Auto steer for large tractors |
| 2.6. |
Ten-year forecasts for autosteer tractors |
| 2.7. |
Master-slave or follow-me large autonomous tractors |
| 2.8. |
Fully autonomous driverless large tractors |
| 2.9. |
Technology progression towards driverless autonomous large-sized tractors |
| 2.10. |
Ten-year market forecasts for tractor guidance, autosteer and fully autonomous tractors/combines |
| 3. |
AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC AGRICULTURAL PLATFORMS |
| 3.1. |
Autonomous small-sized agricultural robots |
| 3.2. |
Autonomous agricultural robotic platforms |
| 3.3. |
Ten-year market forecasts for autonomous robotic data scouts |
| 4. |
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. |
Ten-year market forecast for robotic weeding by technology type |
| 5. |
ROBOTIC 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. |
Ten-year market forecasts for robotic lettuce thinning and vegetable harvesting by technology and territory |
| 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 |
| 6.6. |
Emerging robotic fresh fruit harvest assist technologies |
| 6.7. |
Robotic fresh apple harvesting |
| 6.8. |
Robotic fresh citrus harvesting |
| 6.9. |
Fresh fruit harvesting robots |
| 6.10. |
Technology and progress progression roadmap for robotic fresh fruit harvesting |
| 6.11. |
Addressable market size for robotic fresh apple-picking service provision |
| 6.12. |
Ten-year market forecasts for robotic fresh citrus/apple harvesting by territory |
| 6.13. |
Robotic fresh strawberry harvesting |
| 6.14. |
Addressable market size for robotic fresh strawberry-picking service provision |
| 6.15. |
Ten-year market forecasts for robotic fresh strawberry harvesting by territory |
| 7. |
VINE PRUNING ROBOTS |
| 7.1. |
Autonomous robotic vineyard scouts and pruners |
| 7.2. |
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 diary farm sizes |
| 10.2. |
Global number and distribution of dairy cows by territory |
| 10.3. |
Global country-specific addressable markets for robotic milking machines and feed pushers |
| 10.4. |
Robotic milking parlours |
| 10.5. |
Overview of robotic milking parlours |
| 10.6. |
Autonomous robotic feed pushers |
| 10.7. |
Alternatives to autonomous robotic feed pushers |
| 10.8. |
Autonomous robotic shepherds |
| 10.9. |
Autonomous manure cleaning robots |
| 10.10. |
Ten-year market forecasts for robotic milking systems by country |
| 10.11. |
Ten-year market forecasts for automatic feed pusher and other mobile robotics in dairy farming |
| 11. |
AERIAL DATA COLLECTIONS |
| 11.1. |
Satellite vs. plane vs drone mapping and scouting |
| 11.2. |
Benefits of using aerial imaging in farming |
| 11.3. |
Unmanned drones in rice field pest control in Japan |
| 11.4. |
Unmanned drones and helicopters for field spraying |
| 11.5. |
Unmanned agriculture drones on the market |
| 11.6. |
Comparing different agricultural drones on the market |
| 11.7. |
Regulation barriers coming down? |
| 11.8. |
Agricultural drones: the emerging value chain |
| 11.9. |
Core company information on key agricultural drone companies |
| 11.10. |
Ten-year market forecasts for agricultural drones |
| 12. |
KEY ENABLING COMPONENTS |
| 13. |
GRIPPER TECHNOLOGY |
| 13.1. |
Suction-based end effector technologies for fresh fruit harvesting |
| 13.2. |
Simple and effective robotic end effectors for fruit harvesting |
| 13.3. |
Soft robotics based end effector technologies for fresh fruit handling |
| 13.4. |
Robotic end effector technologies for fresh fruit harvesting |
| 13.5. |
Dexterous robotic hands for agricultural robotics |
| 13.6. |
Examples of dexterous robotic hands |
| 14. |
NAVIGATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES (RTK, LIDAR, LASERS AND OTHERS) |
| 14.1. |
RTK systems: operation, performance and value chain |
| 14.2. |
Lidar- basic operation principles |
| 14.3. |
Review of LIDARs on the market or in development |
| 14.4. |
Performance comparison of different LIDARs on the market or in development |
| 14.5. |
Assessing suitability of different LIDAR for agricultural robotic applications |
| 14.6. |
Hyperspectral image sensors |
| 14.7. |
Hyperspectral imaging and precision agriculture |
| 14.8. |
Hyperspectral imaging in other applications |
| 14.9. |
Hyperspectral imaging sensors on the market |
| 14.10. |
Common multi-spectral sensors used with agricultural drones |
| 14.11. |
GeoVantage |
| 15. |
MARKET FORECAST, BUSINESS LANDSCAPE, COMPANY POSITIONING, AND COMPANY PROFILE |
| 15.1. |
Ten-year market forecasts for all agricultural robots and drones segmented by type and/or function |
| 15.2. |
Ten-year market forecasts for agricultural robots and drones segmented by type and/or function |
| 15.3. |
Ten-year market forecasts for autonomous and mobile agricultural robots and drones segmented by type and/or function |
| 15.4. |
Ten-year market forecasts for tractor guidance, autosteer and fully autonomous tractors/combines |
| 15.5. |
Ten-year market forecasts for autonomous robotic data scouts |
| 15.6. |
Ten-year market forecast for robotic weeding by technology type |
| 15.7. |
Ten-year market forecasts for robotic lettuce thinning and vegetable harvesting by technology and territory |
| 15.8. |
Ten-year market forecasts for robotic fresh citrus/apple harvesting by territory |
| 15.9. |
Ten-year market forecasts for robotic fresh strawberry harvesting by territory |
| 15.10. |
Ten-year market forecasts for robotic milking systems by country |
| 15.11. |
Ten-year market forecasts for automatic feed pusher and other mobile robotics in dairy farming |
| 15.12. |
Ten-year market forecasts for agricultural drones |
| 16. |
INTERVIEW-BASED COMPANY PROFILES |
| 16.1. |
Agrobot |
| 16.2. |
Blue River Technology |
| 16.3. |
DeepField Robotics |
| 16.4. |
F. Poulsen Engineering ApS |
| 16.5. |
Fresh Fruit Robotics |
| 16.6. |
Harvest CROO Robotics |
| 16.7. |
Ibex Automation |
| 16.8. |
miRobot |
| 16.9. |
Naio Technologies |
| 16.10. |
Precision Hawk |
| 16.11. |
Quanergy |
| 16.12. |
Robotic Solutions |
| 16.13. |
Shadow Robotics |
| 16.14. |
Soft Robotics Inc |
| 16.15. |
Stream Technologies |
| 16.16. |
SwarmFarm Robotics |
| 16.17. |
Tillet and Hague |
| 16.18. |
Velodyne LiDAR |
| 17. |
COMPANY PROFILES |
| 17.1. |
3D Robotics |
| 17.2. |
AGCO |
| 17.3. |
AgEagle |
| 17.4. |
AgJunction Inc |
| 17.5. |
Agribotix |
| 17.6. |
Airinov |
| 17.7. |
Autonomous Tractor Cooperation |
| 17.8. |
Beijing UniStrong Science and Technology (BUST) |
| 17.9. |
Case IH |
| 17.10. |
Empire Robotics |
| 17.11. |
Farmbot |
| 17.12. |
Festo |
| 17.13. |
Gamaya |
| 17.14. |
GrabIT |
| 17.15. |
Harvest Automation |
| 17.16. |
Headwall |
| 17.17. |
John Deere |
| 17.18. |
Kinzes Autonomous Harvest System |
| 17.19. |
Kubota Corp |
| 17.20. |
LeddarTech |
| 17.21. |
Lely |
| 17.22. |
Magnificant |
| 17.23. |
Micasense |
| 17.24. |
NavCom |
| 17.25. |
Nippon Signal |
| 17.26. |
Novariant |
| 17.27. |
Orbital Insight |
| 17.28. |
Parrot |
| 17.29. |
Pix4D |
| 17.30. |
Prospera |
| 17.31. |
Scanse |
| 17.32. |
senseFly |
| 17.33. |
Sentra |
| 17.34. |
SpeIR |
| 17.35. |
Trimble |
| 17.36. |
URSULA Agriculture |
| 17.37. |
Yanmar |
| 17.38. |
Yara |
| 18. |
COMPANIES COVERED IN THE REPORT |
| 18.1. |
Aarhus University |
| 18.2. |
Abundant Robotic Inc |
| 18.3. |
Adigo |
| 18.4. |
Aerial Technology Limited |
| 18.5. |
Agricultural Solutions Ltd |
| 18.6. |
Ai-Solution |
| 18.7. |
Amazonen-Werke |
| 18.8. |
Australian Centre of Field Robotics |
| 18.9. |
Autonomous Tractor Corporation |
| 18.10. |
BASF |
| 18.11. |
Bayer |
| 18.12. |
BeauMatic Robotics |
| 18.13. |
Bosch |
| 18.14. |
C. Write & Son Ltd |
| 18.15. |
Carnegie Mellow University |
| 18.16. |
Cerescon |
| 18.17. |
CNH Industrial (Case IH and New Holland) |
| 18.18. |
Conpleks Innovation (Kongskilde Vibro Crop Robotti) |
| 18.19. |
Cork University |
| 18.20. |
DBR Conveyor Concepts |
| 18.21. |
Delair-tech |
| 18.22. |
DeLaval |
| 18.23. |
DEMCON |
| 18.24. |
Deutz Fahr |
| 18.25. |
DJI |
| 18.26. |
Dorhout R&D |
| 18.27. |
Dow |
| 18.28. |
DroneDeploy |
| 18.29. |
DuPont |
| 18.30. |
ecoRobotix |
| 18.31. |
Energid |
| 18.32. |
Ferrari Costruzioni Meccaniche |
| 18.33. |
Festo |
| 18.34. |
FMTC |
| 18.35. |
Frankin Robotics |
| 18.36. |
Fuji Heavy Industries |
| 18.37. |
Gardford Machinery |
| 18.38. |
Geiger Lund |
| 18.39. |
GeoVantage |
| 18.40. |
Hexacon |
| 18.41. |
HoneyComb |
| 18.42. |
Industrial Technology Centre of Nagasaki |
| 18.43. |
JCB |
| 18.44. |
JOZ |
| 18.45. |
Kinov |
| 18.46. |
Kinze Autonomy |
| 18.47. |
Kongskilde Industries A/S (Kongskilde Vibro Crop Robotti) |
| 18.48. |
KU Leuven |
| 18.49. |
Lockheed Martin |
| 18.50. |
Mahindra Group |
| 18.51. |
Monosem |
| 18.52. |
Monsanto |
| 18.53. |
Nurfam |
| 18.54. |
Pneubotics |
| 18.55. |
Precision Planting LLC |
| 18.56. |
Pulse Electronics |
| 18.57. |
Queensland University of Technology(Agbot I and Agbot II) |
| 18.58. |
Resonon |
| 18.59. |
RoboPeak |
| 18.60. |
Rowbot |
| 18.61. |
SAC Milking |
| 18.62. |
SAPOS |
| 18.63. |
Schunk |
| 18.64. |
SICK |
| 18.65. |
Strauss Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH |
| 18.66. |
Sumitomo Chemical |
| 18.67. |
Syngenta |
| 18.68. |
Topcon |
| 18.69. |
University of Illinois |
| 18.70. |
University of New South Wales |
| 18.71. |
Vision Robots Corp |
| 18.72. |
Wageningen University |
| 18.73. |
Wall-Ye |
| 18.74. |
Wasserbauer |
| 18.75. |
Yamaha |