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Agtech

149 tracked companies; 3 companies with incident history, 3 unique documented incidents. Ranked by RobotRisk index; tick marks industry median where nonzero. All industries.

Analyst brief

The category's sole entity, Lely, is defined by one high-value class-action settlement (~$122M) over a defect in its Astronaut A4 robotic milking system. The dominant failure mode on record is a product-liability defect resolved through litigation rather than a regulatory recall or operational incident. With only one entity and one event, the data shows total concentration in a single company and a single event type; no pattern across multiple incidents or firms is evident. The record is press/litigation-driven rather than regulator-driven.

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Company risk ranking

CompanyRobotRisk index (0-100)Industry percentileBandIncidents
Lely
18.1
100% Elevated 1
Monarch Tractor
14.9
99% Low 1
DeLaval
8.8
99% Low 1

Recent incidents

SevDateCompanyTypeLocationIncidentSource
S2~Sep 2025Monarch Tractor malfunction Burks Tractor dealership, ID, USAIdaho dealer sues Monarch Tractor over electric tractors that could not operate autonomously · 10 tractors TechCrunch
S228 Jul 2022DeLaval regulatory DeLaval settles defective milking robots class action for $55M · $55M settlement Top Class Actions
S3not documentedLely recall Lely settles Astronaut A4 robotic milking system defect class action for ~$122M · ~$122M settlement brownfieldagnews.com
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