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 world 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.

Year 3 winners were announced on May 8, 2025. The winning teams, one from the University of Georgia and one from the University of Hawai'i - Manoa, pitched at the Plug n Play Summit and also presented their projects at FIRA USA.

Year 4: Over 80 teams, including 36 international teams, joined the 2026 competition and are currently engaged in their projects.

For more information, 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.