FarmDriverless farm robot platform

SwarmBot

Name: SwarmBot
Brand: SwarmFarm Robotics

SwarmBots are driverless farm robots built in Queensland, Australia, used mainly to spray weeds precisely. SwarmFarm says they cut herbicide use by up to 95 percent and fuel emissions by 35 percent. Clean Energy Finance Corporation release, 2 Oct 2025

Stage 4 of 5

Paying customers

Which rule placed it

Evidence: Independently reported
Human help: None reported
Last milestone: 23 Sept 2026

01Can I get it?

Yes, in places

Where it works today: On farms around Australia, in grain cropping and horticulture; the company says 200 have been deployed. Grain Central, 2 Oct 2025
Published price: No published price in our sources.
Human help: A New South Wales grower's robot works day and night at up to 10 km/h with no one driving it. GRDC GroundCover, 20 Feb 2025

02Track record

What has actually happened

Every milestone is dated and links to the page it comes from. Lines marked company-reported rest on the maker's own word.

23 Sept 2026
Paying customers · sets the stage
SwarmFarm has installed 14 AutoFill systems with paying customers.
Region (region.com.au), 23 Sept 2026Company-reported
22 Sept 2026
Update
SwarmFarm's AutoFill, which mixes chemicals and refills a robot's spray tank on its own, won the 2026 Henty Machine of the Year award.
Region (region.com.au), 23 Sept 2026
2 Oct 2025
Funding
SwarmFarm raised $30 million in a Series B round, partly to grow in North America.
Grain Central, 2 Oct 2025Company-reported
2 Oct 2025
Funding
The Australian government's Clean Energy Finance Corporation put $7 million into SwarmFarm.
Clean Energy Finance Corporation release, 2 Oct 2025
2023
Paying customers · sets the stage
Grower Charlie Buchanan, who farms near Come By Chance in New South Wales, bought a SwarmBot in 2023.
GRDC GroundCover, 20 Feb 2025
8 Oct 2020
Paying customers · sets the stage
SwarmFarm said its robots had sprayed, weeded and mowed more than 200,000 acres of farmland over two years.
AgFunderNews, 8 Oct 2020Company-reported
22 March 2016
Unveiled
SwarmFarm showed three robots working together to spray weeds on a wheat farm at Gindie, near Emerald in Queensland.
Queensland Country Life, 24 Mar 2016

03Safety and incidents

What has gone wrong

No crashes, recalls or regulator reports in our sources. That is not proof none happened; we add them when a regulator or trusted outlet reports one.

How we placed it

The rule, not an opinion

Stages are worked out by published rules from the dated milestones above. We never rate robots, and no maker can pay to change a stage.

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Regulator-cleared or mass market
A regulator has cleared it where approval applies: FDA clearance or approval for a medical robot, a permit to run with no one aboard for a self-driving vehicle, or an FAA approval for routine drone flights. Or: Widely sold: sales in the hundreds of thousands, or a product category you can buy in ordinary shops.
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Paying customersThis robot
Delivered to customers who pay for it, beyond a trial, or a paid service the public can use.
Placed by: SwarmFarm has installed 14 AutoFill systems with paying customers (23 Sept 2026); Grower Charlie Buchanan, who farms near Come By Chance in New South Wales, bought a SwarmBot in 2023 (2023).
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Pilot
Working with a named customer in a real setting, as a trial.
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Pre-orders
Orders, reservations or deposits taken, with nothing delivered yet.
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Demo only
Shown in videos, staged events or a factory, with no units working for customers.

What we couldn't confirm. We found no regulator record about running the robots with no one on board, and no count of SwarmBots outside Australia.

Sources

Cite this page

Robotics Verdict. “SwarmBot (SwarmFarm Robotics): how far has it got?” roboticsverdict.com/robots/swarmfarm. Checked 19 October 2026.