Dates and Facts
The 23th Field Robot Event will take place as part of the DLG-Feldtage,
16 to 18 June 2026
Venue: International DLG Crop Production Centre Bernburg, Germany.
Field Robot Event 2026 – Tasks Overview
The Field Robot Event 2026 challenges autonomous robots to perform realistic agricultural tasks, including navigation, plant health detection, biodiversity monitoring, and targeted soil treatment. A creative freestyle task highlights innovative and sustainable solutions.
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The Contest at a Glance
- The competition is structured over multiple tasks that test distinct robot capabilities. Teams begin in basic navigation and progressively face more advanced challenges—such as precise sensing, classification, mapping, and manipulation.
- The final “freestyle” challenge allows each team to demonstrate an original concept or application beyond the standard tasks.
- Judges evaluate performance not only in terms of accuracy or speed but also in safety, reliability, robustness in outdoor conditions, and creativity.
- Past tasks have included autonomous row navigation, gap traversal, object/weed detection, mapping, and classification.
- The contest is typically held outdoors; in some editions, online or hybrid formats or virtual fields may also be involved.