Policy

China proposes a list of agricultural-robot application scenarios

Proposed list; public review closedOctober 14, 2026

An XAG agricultural sprayer robot displayed at Agritechnica. — An XAG agricultural spraying robot at Agritechnica 2023. Related agricultural robotics; the photograph does not establish inclusion in MIIT’s proposed scenario list. Image: Matti Blume / MB-one / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 4096 × 3072 · Downsampled where needed to 4K or larger, orientation normalized, and WebP optimized. No upscaling. Smaller card preview.

What happened

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs selected proposed scenarios under a 2026 program covering crop production, livestock and aquaculture, and initial processing and logistics. The review period has ended; no final list was identified in this review.

Why it matters

The program is intended to identify mature, repeatable uses of agricultural robots and support wider adoption. Completion of the review period does not make the list final, independently validate the applicants' performance claims, or show that the selected systems have achieved large-scale deployment.

Source checked October 31, 2026. Status describes the evidence in the linked source at the time of review.