# FD20: robot model

Canonical ID: `d197140f-7768-4675-a5b9-3aaf5034062a`

- **Slug:** farmdroid-fd20
- **Form factor:** agriculture
- **Maturity stage:** commercial
- **Lifecycle:** active
- **Deployments registered:** 0

## Specs

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- **products:** FD20 - a ~1,250 kg solar-powered autonomous robot that both sows and mechanically weeds row crops; 8mm RTK-GPS records each seed position for inter- and intra-row weeding before crop emergence; modular +Seed and optional +Spray upgrades
- **formFactor:** agriculture (lightweight solar-powered self-mobile field robot; seeds AND mechanically weeds)

## Deployments

_No deployments registered for this model._

## Supply chain

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this model's suppliers._

_Suppliers appear when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Common questions

### What is FD20?

FarmDroid (founded 2018 in Vejen, Denmark, by brothers Jens and Kristian Warming) makes the FD20, a solar-powered autonomous field robot that both sows and mechanically weeds row crops in a single machine. Lightweight at about 1,250 kilograms and powered by four solar panels with a roughly 1.6 kilowatt-hour battery for 18 to 24 hours of operation, it uses 8-millimeter RTK-GPS to record the exact position of every seed at sowing, which lets it weed precisely between and within rows before the crop even emerges, herbicide-free. It has seen strong adoption in European organic farming and is recorded at commercial maturity. By the company's own reporting it has sold more than 500 robots across 26 countries since first sales in 2019, and in the 2025 season its fleet weeded about 26,335 hectares across 26 countries; this sits on an independently corroborated growth curve, with Farmers Weekly reporting 250 units in 18 countries as of April 2022. FarmDroid raised 10.5 million euro in October 2024 from Convent Capital, Navus Ventures, and Denmark's state export and investment fund EIFO, earmarked to expand from organic into the conventional market. The product evolves through modular upgrades, including a new +Seed system and an optional +Spray module, rather than a new model. Claims of being the world's best-selling robot in this niche are marketing and not asserted, the herbicide-free description applies to the base configuration since the optional +Spray module micro-doses chemicals, and the North American presence remains early-stage trials and emerging dealer listings rather than commercial scale.

### Who makes FD20?

FD20 is made by FarmDroid, based in Vejen, Denmark, founded in 2018.

### Where is FD20 deployed?

No verified deployments of FD20 are currently on the DEPLOY registry. DEPLOY records deployments only when verified at a named site with a primary source; absence may reflect pre-deployment, research, or manufacturer-internal use.

### What is FD20's maturity stage?

FD20 is at the commercial stage on the DEPLOY maturity ladder (research, prototype, pilot, commercial, production). Commercial stage means production-grade deployments are operating at named customer sites.


## Sources (6)

1. https://farmdroid.com/products/farmdroid-fd20/
2. https://www.therobotreport.com/farmdroid-obtain-over-11m-deploy-modular-robot-globally/
3. https://farmdroid.com/
4. https://farmdroid.com/blog/weeding-season-results-are-in/
5. https://www.realagriculture.com/2025/11/first-it-seeds-then-it-weeds-its-the-autonomous-farmdroid-fd20
6. https://www.eu-startups.com/2024/10/danish-agtech-farmdroid-secures-e10-5-million-for-its-autonomous-solar-powered-agricultural-robot/

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