{"id":"d197140f-7768-4675-a5b9-3aaf5034062a","companyId":"c422e694-d0a8-4276-ab1b-776499077bca","modelName":"FD20","slug":"farmdroid-fd20","description":"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.","formFactor":"agriculture","maturityStage":"commercial","lifecycleState":"active","supersededByModelId":null,"specs":{"notes":[{"label":"Verified (commercial)","value":"FarmDroid (founded 2018, Vejen Denmark; brothers Jens + Kristian Warming) makes the FD20, a solar-powered (4 panels, ~1.6 kWh battery, 18-24h operation), lightweight (~1,250 kg) autonomous robot that both seeds AND mechanically weeds in one machine, using 8mm RTK-GPS to record each plant position for herbicide-free inter- and intra-row weeding. Strong adoption in European organic farming. maturity=commercial."},{"label":"Scale (company-reported)","value":"500+ robots sold across 26 countries (first sales 2019); 2025 season: ~26,335 ha weeded across 26 countries. Independently corroborated growth curve (Farmers Weekly reported 250 units / 18 countries in Apr 2022). The exact 500/26 figures are company-reported. EUR 10.5M raised Oct 2024 (Convent Capital, Navus Ventures, Denmark's EIFO) to expand from organic into the conventional market."},{"label":"Verified-vs-claimed","value":"'World's #1 / best-selling' is an unverified marketing claim, not asserted. 'Herbicide-free' is the BASE configuration: the optional +Spray module does micro-dose plant-protection chemicals (~94% reduction). North America is early-stage (Ontario onion trials + emerging dealer listings), not commercial-at-scale; no verified US/Canada unit count. Price is a dealer-reported range (~EUR 75-95k)."}],"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)"},"manufacturerSerial":null,"reviewStatus":"reviewed","sources":[{"url":"https://farmdroid.com/products/farmdroid-fd20/","title":"FarmDroid FD20: solar-powered autonomous seeding + weeding robot (official)","sourceName":"FarmDroid (official)"},{"url":"https://www.therobotreport.com/farmdroid-obtain-over-11m-deploy-modular-robot-globally/","title":"FarmDroid raises over $11M (EUR 10.5M, Oct 2024) to scale; founder/history","sourceName":"The Robot Report"},{"url":"https://farmdroid.com/","title":"FarmDroid: 500+ robots sold in 26 countries (official homepage)","sourceName":"FarmDroid (official)"},{"url":"https://farmdroid.com/blog/weeding-season-results-are-in/","title":"FarmDroid 2025 season: 26,335 ha weeded across 26 countries (fleet scale)","sourceName":"FarmDroid (official)"},{"url":"https://www.realagriculture.com/2025/11/first-it-seeds-then-it-weeds-its-the-autonomous-farmdroid-fd20","title":"FarmDroid FD20 North America trials (Holland Marsh ON onions; Nov 2025)","sourceName":"RealAgriculture"},{"url":"https://www.eu-startups.com/2024/10/danish-agtech-farmdroid-secures-e10-5-million-for-its-autonomous-solar-powered-agricultural-robot/","title":"Danish agtech FarmDroid secures EUR 10.5M (Convent Capital, Navus, EIFO)","sourceName":"EU-Startups"}],"aliases":["FarmDroid FD20","FD20"],"collisionRisk":"low","reviewNote":null,"manufacturerTermForTeleop":null,"createdAt":"2026-06-03T17:59:03.915Z","updatedAt":"2026-06-03T17:59:03.915Z","jsonLd":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Product","@id":"https://registry.deploy.report/models/farmdroid-fd20","url":"https://registry.deploy.report/models/farmdroid-fd20","name":"FD20","alternateName":["FarmDroid FD20","FD20"],"description":"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.","identifier":"d197140f-7768-4675-a5b9-3aaf5034062a","category":"agriculture","publisher":{"@id":"https://deploy.report/#organization"}}}