Robotics · 9 November 2026 · 3 min read
A French farm robot will carry the tools a farmer already owns. Deliveries are late 2027
Naïo showed SANKA at EIMA, a tracked electric carrier of 2.2 tonnes, meant to take implements a grower already has. The company says the first deliveries are in the second half of 2027. Pre-series is not a season of work.
Naïo, the French crop-robot maker, showed SANKA as a world premiere at EIMA. The company’s account, carried as a sponsored note, calls it a tracked, fully electric carrier of 2.2 tonnes, built to take implements a grower already owns rather than a tool Naïo has to sell with it. It puts the implement capacity at 1 tonne, the slope at up to 30 per cent, and the speed at up to 6 kilometres an hour, on its own navigation software and RTK satellite guidance, for a working day. Those are specifications. They are not a counted hectare.
The same note says the robot has been field-tested over four seasons, is now entering pre-series production, and that first deliveries are scheduled for the second half of 2027. Scheduled is not delivered. EIMA’s panel gave it a “2026 Technical Evolution” mention. A prize at a show is not an order book. The note does not give a price.