✓ Does not destroy the soil’s microstructure
The FarmDroid FD20 is extremely lightweight, at only 900kg it ensures that the soil’s microstructure is not damaged.
SOWING
Watch the sowing system in action ↗The sowing system on the FarmDroid consists of a seeding disc which works in two stages. Firstly, there is a seed disk which takes a set amount of seeds out per rotation and then drops the seeds individually down a seed valve. Secondly, at the bottom of the valve there is a shutter and each individual seed is held here until the right location is found. Once in the right location a signal from the robot opens the shutter and the seed is dropped from a height of 2-3 centimetres. This very high level of precision planting is required for later weeding passes.
Compatible Crops
Rapeseed
Sugar Beet
Red Beet
Beetroot
Spinach
Parsley
Onions
Salad
FarmDroid R&D constantly works together with farmers and ourselves as distributors to test out new seeds.
New seeding system
More crops. One autonomous platform.
The FarmDroid +Seed 14 mm opens up the FD20 to a much wider range of field crops for UK commercial growers. Designed for larger seed, it brings the same herbicide-free precision farming approach to beans, peas, maize, chickpeas, soybeans and similar-sized crops.
RTK GPS delivers around 8 mm precision at the seed, giving every plant a known position for accurate follow-on weeding. That means cleaner establishment and less reliance on manual labour or herbicides.
Seed size
0.8–14 mm
Hoppers
7-litre capacity
Row spacing
25–90 cm
Seeding depth
10–50 mm
Positioning accuracy
Around 8 mm at the seed
Crop compatibility
More than 100 crops
Around 20% more capacity than the small-seed unit — up to approximately 650 m/h at 10 cm plant spacing.
BeansPeasMaizeChickpeasSoybeans100+ crops
Advantages of Sowing using the FarmDroid FD20
✓ Carbon Neutral
Four solar panels deliver the charge to two batteries that power the FarmDroid FD20, making it 100% CO2-neutral.
✓ Flexible operations
With an average sowing speed of 450-550m/hr, the FarmDroid FD20 works alone whilst the owner can carry out other jobs.
