Global Agricultural Robots and Drones Forecasts 2018-2038: Technologies, Markets and Players
BOSTON, June 28, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- 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.
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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
Related Links
Further IDTechEx Research on Robotics
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