Farm Robotics Challenge
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2026 Registration Is Open
Join the Info Session Webinar on Sept. 10, 2025, 4:00-5:00 PM (PDT)
The Farm Robotics Challenge has grown to include more undergraduate and graduate teams every year – both in the US and internationally. Through the challenge, student teams identify and solve real-world agricultural problems using cutting-edge robotics or drone technology.
Applications are open to join the 2026 Challenge!
Prizes
The Challenge is pleased to announce a partnership with the Reservoir, a leading early-stage venture capital investor and robotics incubator dedicated to accelerating real-world agricultural technology. The Reservoir will award a $50,000 Grand Prize investment to the winning team. This seed funding goes beyond a traditional competition prize, as it provides a powerful springboard for turning student-built prototypes into market-ready solutions with real agricultural impact.
The competition will award over $100,000 in prizes across multiple categories, and select teams will be offered travel stipends to showcase their projects at FIRA USA, North America’s leading ag tech conference. Beyond the prizes, all participants gain access to a network of academic and industry professionals dedicated to building the future of farming.
Read the full launch announcement and sign up to attend the webinar.
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About
The Farm Robotics Challenge was launched in 2023 as an innovative 4-month-long competition that invites student teams from universities and colleges across the United States to develop solutions for on-farm challenges using robotics. In its inaugural year, 19 teams from 12 universities and colleges created creative engineering solutions on the farm-ng Amiga robotic platform.
Year 2 culminated in October 2024 with winners announced at the annual FIRA conference.
For more information, please visit the Farm Robotics Challenge website. Organized by the AI Institute for Next Generation Food Systems (AIFS) and UC ANR, with support from Fresno-Merced Future of Food (F3) Innovation, this challenge presents real-life farm automation scenarios for students to gain hands-on experience with the practical application of robotics in agriculture.
For more info, make sure to check out this program's main website at https://farmbot.ai/.