Agricultural Tractor Robots: Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2018 to 2024

Published: May, 2018 | Pages: 210 | Publisher: WinterGreen Research
Industry: Agriculture | Report Format: Electronic (PDF)

Global agricultural tractor robots’ market is estimated to grow at a substantial CAGR in the forecast period as the scope, product types, and its applications are increasing across the globe. The factors that propel the growth of the agricultural tractor robots market include the growing population and increasing food consumption, reduced time & manpower and high acceptance of precision farming. On the other hand, there are factors that may hamper the growth of the market including high cost due to complex machinery and strict government regulations and policies.

Agricultural tractor robots market may be explored by type, application, and geography. Agricultural tractor robots market may be explored by type as Materials management, UAV, Milking robots, and Driverless tractor. The “Milking robots” segment led the agricultural tractor robots market in 2017 and is anticipated to maintain its dominance by 2024.

Agricultural tractor robots market could be explored based on the application as Animal management, Field farming, Dairy management, Crop management, and Soil management. The “Dairy management” segment led the agricultural tractor robots market in 2015 and is anticipated to maintain its dominance by 2024.

Agricultural tractor robots market is categorized based on geography into North America, Latin America, Japan, Middle East, and Africa, Western Europe, Asia Pacific, and Eastern Europe. The “North America” segment led the agricultural tractor robots market in 2015 and is anticipated to maintain its dominance by 2024. The key factors that could be attributed to the growth include the high occurrence of vendors for agriculture robots, the presence of higher farming land, and increase agricultural production.

The key players contributing to the robust growth of the agricultural tractor robots market comprise GEA Group, DE Laval, AGCO, Autonomous Tractor Corporation, Autonomous Solutions Inc., Lely, John Deere, Harvest Automation, Deerfield Robotics, and Clear Path Robotics. The leading companies are taking up partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures in order to boost the inorganic growth of the industry.

Worldwide markets are poised to achieve continuing growth as Agricultural Tractor Robots proves its value by managing digital farming and implementing self-driving capabilities and features in real time provide farming management.

The agriculture industry is a $5 trillion industry representing 10% of global consumer spending, 40 percent of employment and 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions globally. Robotic tractors are positioned to help agriculture to be more precise, more efficient, and more productive.

Use of much small tractors will help the soil base, creating less impact on compaction. Agricultural efficiency improvement is impactful to humanity, changing the size of population, quality of life and making a better future.

Agricultural self-driving features for tractors are the beginning of a full rollout of robot technologies. Self-driving features in place depend on having a human control the tractors initially. This is a first step in building fully autonomous tractors. One of the main objections to completely trusting self-driving tractors seems to be the fear of potential accidents. When the vehicles are running unattended there are often obstacles encountered that may cause problems, raising the specter of ruining the tractor.

A $185 million market worldwide in 2017, the Agricultural Tractor Robots market is expected to reach $3.2 billion by 2024.

Companies Profiled

Market Leaders

• John Deere
• AGCO (Fendt)
• CNH Global (Case IH)
• Autonomous Tractor Corporation

Key Topics

• Agricultural Tractor Robots
• Agriculture Internet of Things
• Digital farming
• Self-driving tractors
• Robotic Tractor Advanced Sensors and Guidance Systems
• Agriculture industry
• Harvest Automation

 Table of Contents

Agricultural Tractor Robots Market Driving Forces 13
Agricultural Robot Self Driving Tractor Market Forecasts Dollars, Worldwide, 2018-2024 15

1. Agricultural Robot Market Description and Market Dynamics 18
1.1 Digitization of Agricultural Markets 18
1.1.1 Shift to Digital Agriculture 19
1.1.2 Digital Farms a Reality 20
1.2 Challenges of Agricultural Robots 26
1.3 Automation In The Agricultural Industry 28
1.3.1 Robots Find A Place in the Agriculture Industry 29
1.3.2 Agricultural Robots Make Production More Efficient 30
1.3.3 Use Of Industrial Robots for Agriculture 31
1.3.4 Agricultural Robotics and Automation 32
1.3.5 Precision Agriculture Info, Analysis, Tools 34
1.3.6 Automatic Guidance 34
1.3.7 Autonomous Machines 34
1.3.8 Drones 35
1.3.9 Breeding + Sensors + Robots 36
1.4 Swarms of Precision Agriculture Robots 37
1.5 RAS Agricultural Robotics and Automation (AgRA) Technical Committee 38
1.6 Farm Bots Pick, Plant and Drive 40
1.6.1 Relying On Illegal Immigrants Can Be A Legal Liability 40
1.6.2 Harvest Automation Labor Process Automation 41
1.6.3 The Growing Season Is Also The Shipping Season 41

2. Robotic Agricultural Self- Driving Tractors Market Shares and Market Forecasts 42
2.1 Agriculture And Turf Automation Market Driving Forces 42
2.2 Agricultural Tractors with Self Driving Features Market Shares 44
2.2.1 John Deere 47
2.2.2 Case IH 48
2.2.3 New Holland 48
2.3 Agricultural Robot Self Driving Tractor Market Forecasts Dollars, Worldwide, 2018-2024 49
2.3.1 Small, Medium and Large Agricultural Tractors with Self-Driving Features and Tractor Robot Market Forecasts, 53
2.3.2 Agricultural Tractors with Self-Driving Features and Tractor Robot Market Segments 57
2.3.3 Agricultural Tractors Installed Base and Self-Driving Tractor Robot Installed Base Market Forecasts, Percent Penetration 59
2.4 Agricultural Internet of Things (IoT) 60
2.4.1 Agriculture IoT Food Production Increases 62
2.4.2 Agriculture IoT: Global Shift to Use of Sensors 62
2.4.3 Agriculture Internet of Things: Venture Investment 63
2.4.4 Agriculture Internet of Things (IoT) Technology 64
2.4.5 IoT Crop Water Management 66
2.5 Agricultural Robotics 66
2.6 Harvests and Crop Production 69
2.7 Digital Farming 70
2.8 Robotic Agricultural Self Driving Tractor Regional Market Segments 72
2.8.1 Tractor Units with Self-Driving Features 77
2,4,1 Planting Equipment 80
2.9 Agricultural Tractor Robots Pricing 84
2.10 Agricultural Tractor Robots Regional Market Segments 85
2.10.1 AGCO 86
2.10.2 Japan 88
2.10.3 Sicily Tractor Harvesting 89

3. Agricultural Tractor Robots Research and Technology 92
3.1 Farm Tractor Auto-Steer Technology 92
3.1.1 The Future of Swarms 96
3.2 Technologies In Precision Agriculture 99
3.2.1 Robotic Tractor Advanced Sensors and Guidance Systems 100
3.2.2 Precise Control Provided by Autonomous Tractors 100
3.2.3 Autonomous Tractor Connectivity Made Practical 101
3.2.4 Mobile Devices 104
3.2.5 Robotics 105
3.3 Agricultural Robot Technologies 106
3.4 An Electronic System Improves Different Agriculture Processes 109

4. Agricultural Tractor Robots Company Profiles 111
4.1 Adigo Field Flux Robot 111
4.2 AGCO 112
4.2.1 AGCO Brands 113
4.2.2 AGCO Fendt GuideConnect System 113
4.2.3 AGCO Fendt Technology Ahead of The Legislation 114
4.2.4 AGCO Revenue 114
4.2.5 Arco Regional 117
4.2.6 2017 Global Harvest 118
4.2.7 ARCO Sales by Product 118
4.2.8 ARCO GuideConnect 120
4.2.9 ARCO Fendt GuideConnect 122
4.2.10 ARCO Future of Swarms 124
4.2.11 ARCO Fendt Farm Equipment 125
4.2.12 AGCO Agricultural Tractor Challenges 126
4.2.13 ARCO Valtra 130
4.3 Autonomous Tractor Corp. (ATC) 130
4.4 AutoProbe 132
4.4.1 AutoProbe Precision Agriculture High Quality Soil Sample 132
4.5 CNH Global (Case IH) 134
4.5.1 Case IH Seedbed 136
4.5.2 Case IH Seedbed, From Surface to Floor 137
4.5.3 Case IH Greater Convenience And Durability 139
4.5.4 Case IH Precision Disk 140
4.6 Chinese Agricultural Robots 142
4.7 Claas 143
4.8 Clearpath Robotics Grizzly RUV 145
4.9 John Deere 148
4.9.1 Deere & Company Revenue 149
4.9.2 John Deere Combines with Self-Driving Features 151
4.9.3 John Deere Commercially-Available Tractor Machines With Autonomous Features 152
4.9.4 John Deere Autonomous Mower 153
4.9.5 Deere Smaller Tractors Autonomous Driving in Groups 154
4.9.6 John Deere Autonomous Tractor 156
4.9.7 John Deere Crop Spraying 158
4.9.8 John Deere Autonomous Tractors 159
4.9.9 John Deere Acquires ‘See & Spray’ Robotics Startup Blue River Technology for $305m 161
4.9.10 John Deere / Blue River Technology 161
4.9.11 Blue River Remote Sensing Technology 163
4.9.12 Blue River Technology High-Throughput, Field-Based Phenotyping 164
4.9.13 Blue River Technology Zea 166
4.9.14 Blue River Technology Drone-Based Phenotyping 167
4.9.15 Blue River Technology Agricultural Robot 170
4.9.16 Blue River Precision Lettuce Thinning - 80/84" Beds 173
4.9.17 Lettuce Bot, Blue River Technology 174
4.9.18 Blue River Technology Investors 177
4.9.19 Blue River Technology Revenue 177
4.10 Iseki & Co 178
4.11 Kubota Tractor 179
4.12 Lovol 180
4.13 Mahindra Tractors 182
4.14 Bayer / Monsanto / Precision Planting 182
4.15 New Holland 183
4.14.1 EZ-Pilot 184
4.16 Nogchui Autonomous Tractor 185
4.16.1 Professor Nogchui Agricultural Tractor Robot Uses Navigation Sensor Called AGI-3 GPS Compass Made by TOPCON 189
4.16.2 Professor Nogchui Agricultural Tractor Robot Mapping System 189
4.16.3 Nogchui Autonomous Tractor Robot Management Systems 192
4.29 Sicily Tractor Harvesting 193
4.30 Yanmar 195
4.31 Agricultural Tractor Companies 196
WinterGreen Research, 198
WinterGreen Research Methodology 198
WinterGreen Research Process 200
Market Research Study 200
WinterGreen Research Global Market Intelligence Company 201
Abstract: Agricultural Equipment Robots: Markets Growing Through Implementation of Digital Farming 1

List of Figures

Figure 1. Agricultural Robot Self Driving Tractor Market Forecasts Dollars, Worldwide, 2018-2024 15
Figure 2. Agricultural Robots Functions 16
Figure 3. Agricultural Robot Market Driving Forces Employment Opportunity 17
Figure 4. Digital Farms a Reality 21
Figure 5. Transitioning To Precision Agricultural Methods 22
Figure 6. Precision Agricultural Functions 23
Figure 7. Precision Agricultural Vehicles 24
Figure 8. Digital Farm Characteristics 24
Figure 9. Precision Agriculture Data Types 25
Figure 10. Aspects of Agricultural Sector Modernization 28
Figure 11. Agricultural Robotics Positioned To Meet The Increasing Demands For Food And Bioenergy 33
Figure 12. Autonomous Orchard Vehicle 38
Figure 13. Automated Picker Machine 39
Figure 14. Equipment That Is Configured to be Used with Self-Driving Tractors 42
Figure 15. Robotic Agricultural Tractors with Self Driving Features Market Shares, Dollars, Worldwide, 2017 44
Figure 16. Robotic Agricultural Tractors with Self Driving Features Market Shares, Dollars, Worldwide, 2017 45
Figure 17. Robotic Agricultural Tractors with Self Driving Features Description, Companies, Worldwide, 2017 46
Figure 18. Agricultural Robot Self Driving Tractor Market Forecasts Dollars, Worldwide, 2018-2024 50
Figure 19. Agricultural Tractors with Self-Driving Features and Tractor Robot Market Forecasts, Dollars, Worldwide, 2018-2024 51
Figure 20. Agricultural Tractors with Self-Driving Features and Tractor Robot Market Forecasts, Units, Worldwide, 2018-2024 52
Figure 21. Large Agricultural Tractors with Self-Driving Features and Tractor Robot Market Forecasts, Dollars, Worldwide, 2018-2024 53
Figure 22. Mid-size Agricultural Tractors with Self-Driving Features and Tractor Robot Market Forecasts, Dollars, Worldwide, 2018-2024 54
Figure 23. Small Agricultural Tractors with Self-Driving Features and Tractor Robot Market Forecasts, Dollars, Worldwide, 2018-2024 55
Figure 24. Small, Medium, and Large Agricultural Tractors with Self-Driving Features and Tractor Robot Market Forecasts, Percent, Worldwide, 2018-2024 56
Figure 25. Agricultural Tractors with Self-Driving Features and Tractor Robot Market Segments, Dollars, Worldwide, 2018-2024 57
Figure 26. Agricultural Tractors with Self-Driving Features and Tractor Robot Market Segments, Percent, Worldwide, 2018-2024 58
Figure 27. Agricultural Tractors Installed Base and Self-Driving Tractor Robot Installed Base Market Forecasts, Percent Penetration, Worldwide, 2018-2024 59
Figure 28. Agricultural Tractors with Self-Driving Features and Tractor Robot Market Forecasts, Units, Worldwide, 2018-2024 60
Figure 29. Two Billion Sensors in Farms Globally by 2024 63
Figure 30. Agriculture Internet of Things: Venture Investment 64
Figure 31. Agricultural Sector The Technological Development of Internet of Things 65
Figure 32. Challenges Brought by Tractors Doing Automation 67
Figure 33. Modernized Agriculture Telegarden, As Installed At Ars Electronica 68
Figure 34. Precision Farming Market Forecasts, Dollars and Percent, Worldwide, 2018-2024 70
Figure 35. Digital Farming Functions 71
Figure 36. Robotic Agricultural Self Driving Tractor Regional Market Segments, 2017 72
Figure 37. Robotic Agricultural Self Driving Tractor Regional Market Segments, 2017 73
Figure 38. Transitioning To Precision Agricultural Methods 74
Figure 39. Autonomous Tractor System Benefits: 74
Figure 40. Tractor Robot Factors Driving Sales 75
Figure 41. Factors Affecting New Agricultural Equipment Sales 76
Figure 42. Tractor Systems 77
Figure 43. Small Tractor Used For Manual Artichokes Harvesting 90
Figure 44. Agricultural Robot Applications 97
1. GPS/GNSS 99
Figure 45. Robotic Tractor Advanced Sensors and Guidance System Uses 100
Figure 46. Autonomous Tractor Connectivity Functions 101
Figure 47. Agricultural Autonomous Equipment Market Driving Forces 102
Figure 48. Long-Term Global Agricultural Tractor Market Forecast Factors 103
Figure 49. Follow Me Robotic Tractors 105
Figure 50. Agricultural Robot Technologies 106
Figure 51. Adigo Field Flux Robot 111
Figure 52. Adigo Field Flux Robot Features 112
Figure 53. AGCO Revenue Highlights 115
Figure 54. AGCO Regional Revenue of Independent Dealers and Distributors 116
Figure 55. ARCO Sales by Product 119
Figure 56. Fendt GuideConnect 123
Figure 57. AGCO Large Tractor 128
Figure 58. Challenger Precision Farming 129
Figure 59. AGCO Agricultural Products 129
Figure 60. Autonomous Tractors Traverse Fields 130
Figure 61. Soil Samples and Phosphorus 133
Figure 62. Case IH High-Speed Precision Planting Market 134
Figure 63. Case IH Cabless Row Crop Tractor 135
Figure 64. Case IH Seedbed 136
Figure 65. Case IH Precision Disk™ 500T 140
Figure 66. Case IH Autonomous Tractor 141
Figure 67. Chinese Farmbot Tractor Image 142
Figure 68. Clearpath Robotics Grizzly RUV 145
Figure 69. Clearpath Robotics Grizzly Robot 146
Figure 70. Clearpath Robotics Grizzly Robot Workhorse Functions 147
Figure 71. Deere & Company Revenue 149
Figure 72. John Deere Combine with Self-Driving Features 151
Figure 73. John Deere’s Intelligent Solutions Group Functional Development 152
Figure 74. John Deere Autonomous Mower 153
Figure 75. John Deere Automated Seed Planting High-Speed Precision Planting Market 155
Figure 76. John Deere Autonomous Tractors 156
Figure 77. John Deere Autonomous Flexible Use Tractor 157
Figure 78. John Deere Crop Spraying 158
Figure 79. John Deere Autonomous Tractor 159
Figure 80. Blue River Technology Agricultural Tractor Robots: 162
Figure 81. Blue River Technology Visualization Spray Tractor Can Identify Plants And Weeds To Spray Chemicals 163
Figure 82. John Deere / Blue River Technologies: 165
Figure 83. Blue River Technology High-Throughput, Field-Based Phenotyping Functions 165
Figure 84. Blue River Technology Zea Measurement Functions 166
Figure 85. Blue River Technology Drone-Based Phenotyping Functions 167
Figure 86. Blue River All-In-One Drone Service Functions 168
Figure 87. Blue River All-In-One Drone Measurement Functions 169
Figure 88. Blue River Technology Agricultural Robot 170
Figure 89. Blue River Precision Lettuce Thinning 40/42" Beds Agricultural Robot 171
Figure 90. Blue River Technology Agricultural Robot Functions 172
Figure 91. Blue River Precision Lettuce Thinning - 80/84" beds 173
Figure 92. Blue River Technology Delicate Crop Weeding And Harvesting Machine Functions 175
Figure 93. Blue River Technology Delicate Crop Weeding And Harvesting Machine Benefits 176
Figure 94. Blue River Technology Investors 177
Figure 95. Kubota Self Driving Tractor 179
Figure 96. Kubota Self Driving Tractor Functions 180
Figure 97. Lovol 180
Figure 98. Loval Tractors 181
Figure 99. New Holland Autonomous Tractor 183
Figure 100. New Holland Assisted Hands Free Steering System 184
Figure 101. Nogchui Autonomous Tractor Grading, Japan 186
Figure 102. Nogchui Autonomous Tractor Working Field 187
Figure 103. Hokkaido University Prof Shin Noguchi Robotics Research, Includes Automated Tractors and Aerial Sensing By Drones 190
Figure 104. At Least 1 Tractor In A Swarm Will Be Manned 191
Figure 105. Professor Nogchui Autonomous Tractor Navigation Map Information 192
Figure 106. Sicily Small Tractor Used For Manual Artichoke Harvesting 194