Buying guide
CNH Raven Autonomy (Case IH / New Holland) vs FD20 in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
| Attribute | No image on file | No image on file |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | CNH Industrial | FarmDroid |
| Form factor | agriculture | agriculture |
| Maturity | commercial | commercial |
| Availability | internal-onlyenterprise | internal-onlyenterprise |
| Price | Not announced | Not announced |
| Capability claims | — | — |
| Brain | — | — |
| Verified deployments | 1Springfield | 1Aarhus |
| Privacy practices | — | — |
| Sources on file | 8 | 7 |
Editorial summaries
CNH Raven Autonomy (Case IH / New Holland)
CNH Industrial (NYSE: CNH; brands Case IH and New Holland Agriculture) runs its agricultural-autonomy program through Raven Industries, which it acquired in 2021 for about $2.1 billion. There is no consumer price: it is B2B agricultural autonomy, not a product sold to consumers. DEPLOY catalogs the entity under the CNH parent rather than a single brand because the autonomy IP is owned at the CNH level and deployed identically across Case IH and New Holland. It is at commercial maturity for its shipping automation and retrofit features: the OMNiPOWER self-propelled platform (2020) and OMNiDRIVE driverless grain-cart retrofit (2021), Raven Cart Automation (commercial from mid-March 2024), the Raven Autonomy Driverless Tillage Solution (2024 model-year), and Sense & Act targeted spraying plus combine, planter, and baler automation. A verified-vs-claimed point: the headline cab-less robot tractor is not shipping: it traces to a 2016 cabless Autonomous Concept Vehicle that was never productized, and the R4 Autonomous Robot Family remains a proof-of-concept as of Agritechnica 2025, with CNH's own November 2025 materials describing broad factory-fit Autonomous Tillage as in development, Passive Implement Guidance launching in 2026, and Green-on-Green spraying in 2027. Importantly, CNH's autonomy asset is Raven Industries, not Bear Flag Robotics (which belongs to John Deere).
FD20
FarmDroid (founded 2018 in Vejen, Denmark, by brothers Jens and Kristian Warming) makes the FD20, a solar-powered autonomous field robot that both sows and mechanically weeds row crops in a single machine. There is no consumer price: it is B2B agricultural equipment, not a product sold to consumers. Lightweight at about 1,250 kilograms and powered by four solar panels with a roughly 1.6 kWh battery for 18-24 hours of operation, it uses 8-millimeter RTK-GPS to record the exact position of every seed at sowing, which lets it weed precisely between and within rows before the crop even emerges, herbicide-free. It has seen strong adoption in European organic farming and is at commercial maturity: by the company's own reporting it has sold more than 500 robots across 26 countries since first sales in 2019, on an independently corroborated growth curve, and it raised EUR 10.5 million in October 2024 to expand from organic into the conventional market. Several verified-vs-claimed points: claims of being the world's best-selling robot in this niche are marketing and not asserted; the herbicide-free description applies to the base configuration (the optional +Spray module micro-doses chemicals); and the North American presence remains early-stage trials rather than commercial scale.
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