The 2025 Crop Robotics Landscape
The Mixing Bowl has released its 2025 Crop Robotics Landscape, an updated and expanded version of the 2024 Landscape that continues to map the robotics companies transforming crop production.
Building on the foundation of the 2024 edition, the new Landscape captures a year of evolution across the crop robotics sector. New entrants, maturing technologies, and a growing convergence of robotics, sensing, and artificial intelligence reflect an ecosystem that is dynamic and increasingly integral to modern agriculture.
The 2025 edition continues coverage across a diverse range of crop production environments and types from Indoor, row crops, specialty field, to permanent. Compared to 2024, the new Landscape shows continued traction in autonomy for row crops, stronger commercial activity in weeding, and an increased pipeline of startups offering autonomous tractors, smaller platform/carriers, and scouting and application drones.
While a full “robotic revolution” in crop production is still in the “first inning of the ball game”, the 2025 update reflects meaningful progress as companies work to deploy robust, scalable solutions in real-world agricultural environments.
Several key themes stand out in this year’s update:
Persistent market drivers — herbicide-resistant weeds, regulatory complexity, volatile weather, rising costs, and limited labor — continue to push the sector forward.
Company turnover reflects market dynamism — with a notable percentage of startups exiting the landscape and new players emerging.
Funding remains active, signaling investor confidence in the sector’s long-term potential.
Workforce transition and skill development remain essential as robotics adoption reshapes farm labor demands.
Despite challenges, the Landscape reveals impressive innovation across nearly every crop system and task, pointing toward a future where robotics play an integral role in sustainable, efficient food production.
The Mixing Bowl remains committed to mapping, analyzing, and connecting the agri-food innovation ecosystem—bridging technology and production through collaboration, data, and shared insight.