Harvest Economics Calculator

Compare partially-autonomous teleoperated harvesting vs. manual labor

Robot Parameters

Robot HtH seconds

Autonomy Rate %

Kg per Cut kg (truss weight)

Fleet Size robots

Robot Cost €/hour (amortized)

Teleoperator

Teleoperator Pay €/hour

Teleoperator HtH seconds

Human Baseline

Human Pay €/hour

Human Productivity kg/hour

Cost per Kilogram

€0.21

Human (€/kg)

€0.06

Robot Total (€/kg)

+74.1%

Labor Cost Savings

10.5

Robots / Teleoperator

Fleet Metrics

Cuts/hr/robot120

Kg/hr/robot36.0 kg

Fleet output3600 kg/hr

Teleoperators needed10

Equivalent humans51.4

Robot labor €/kg€0.01

Robot CAPEX €/kg€0.04

Human total €/hr€771/hr

Robot total €/hr€200/hr

Teleop utilization95%

Hourly Cost Breakdown (equal output)

Human laborTeleop laborRobot CAPEX

Break-even Autonomy Rate

0.0%

0%Current: 85%100%

Fleet Profitability

€571

Profit €/hr

€0.16

Profit €/kg

74.1%

Margin

Revenue/hr€771/hr

Total cost/hr€200/hr

Profit/robot/hr€5.71

Profit/robot/day (8h)€46

Fleet profit/day (8h)€4571

vs. human profit/hr€0 (baseline)

Revenue Waterfall (per hour)

€150

€571

€0Revenue: €771/hr

Name	Auto%	Fleet	€/hr	Kg/hr	Teleops	Human€/kg	Robot€/kg	Savings	Profit/hr
Optimistic	99%	100	1	7200	2	0.21	0.02	92.9%	€1433
Realistic	85%	100	1.5	3600	10	0.21	0.06	74.1%	€571
Conservative (Phase 1)	60%	10	2	240	2	0.21	0.13	41.7%	€21