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Overview
The Economic Assessment service offers stakeholders a structured evaluation of the financial viability of agricultural robotics and automation. The service goes beyond harvesting robots alone and can be applied to a wide range of robotic applications, including weeding, pruning, monitoring, transporting, and processing. Using a transparent cost-benefit model, it accounts for fixed, variable, and indirect costs, as well as expected benefits such as labour savings, efficiency gains, and improvements in product quality. Data is collected through stakeholder interviews, technical specifications, and scenario analysis, ensuring realistic outcomes. Customers receive clear indicators such as cost per unit of output, return on investment (ROI), and payback period under different operational conditions. The service also provides strategic insights that support investment decisions, subsidy applications, and long-term planning, helping decision-makers understand under which circumstances robotics become a cost-effective and competitive solution.
More about the service
Before the service, customers may lack clarity on whether their robotic innovation or investment will be economically viable. After the service, they receive structured calculations, scenario-based comparisons, and actionable insights that highlight both risks and opportunities. This enables farmers, developers, and investors to make well-founded choices, strengthen their business cases, and accelerate the adoption of automation.
The service combines structured interviews, economic modelling, and scenario analysis. Inputs include technical performance data, labour costs, and expected operational savings. The analysis is tailored to the case and results in a professional report with key financial indicators, comparative results across scenarios, and recommendations for strategic decision-making. The service can be delivered remotely with provided data or in hybrid form with on-site interviews.
The assessment can be adapted to different types of robotic applications (e.g., harvesting, crop monitoring, weeding, pruning, logistics, and processing). Customers may choose the scope of the analysis, such as focusing on a single function or including multiple tasks performed by the robot. Scenario depth and detail are adjustable depending on the case.
Location
At user's premises
Netherlands
Remote
Type of Sector
Arable farming
Food processing
Greenhouse
Horticulture
Livestock farming
Tree Crops
Viticulture
Type of service
Business modelling
Data analysis
Market research
Performance evaluation
Test design
Accepted type of products
Data
Design / Documentation
