This Drone Can Lift 100 Kilograms Off the Ground

Twelve Years of Engineering Land on One Farm Drone

Agricultural drones have spent years proving they could spray a field faster than a tractor. DJI decided that a single job wasn't ambitious enough. The Agras T100 is a groundbreaking creation, twelve years in the making, built to push past spraying alone and into territory agricultural drones haven't seriously attempted before. The result carries a maximum payload of 100 kg, a number that puts it closer to small aircraft cargo capacity than anything typically associated with a drone flying over crops.

So, what does that payload actually unlock? Operational efficiency is doubled, supporting multiple application scenarios, including spraying, spreading, and lifting tasks. Therefore, a single piece of equipment now covers three distinct jobs that used to require entirely different machines, or in many cases, manual labor that put workers in direct contact with chemicals and heavy loads.

How the T100 Handles Three Different Farm Jobs

A heavy-lift agricultural drone only earns its reputation if each function actually performs at scale, and the T100 was built with hard numbers behind every task. For spraying, the drone carries a 100-liter tank with a 40 liters-per-minute flow rate, letting it cover ground fast without constant refill stops. For spreading granular materials like fertilizer or seed, it switches to a 150-liter tank with a flow rate of 400 kilograms per minute, a pace built for large-scale fields rather than small plots. In addition, the lifting function allows the drone to carry up to 100 kg of cargo, opening up uses far beyond crop protection, from moving supplies across a farm to support tasks that previously needed a vehicle or a person carrying the load by hand.

Speed matters across all three functions, and the T100 reaches a max operation speed of 20 m/s, keeping large fields within reach during tight weather windows. Furthermore, ultra-fast charging keeps the drone in the air more and grounded less, which matters most during planting or spraying seasons when timing can affect an entire harvest.

Why Safety Systems Are as Important as Power

A drone this powerful needs sensing systems that match its scale, and DJI built the T100 around exactly that requirement. The aircraft combines LiDAR, a Penta-Vision System, and millimeter-wave radar, giving it the kind of layered awareness usually associated with autonomous vehicles rather than farm equipment. Featuring industry-leading safety systems and advanced algorithms, it delivers unparalleled safety performance and an intelligent operational experience, which matters considerably once a single machine is responsible for spraying chemicals, spreading hundreds of kilograms of material per minute, and lifting heavy loads over open fields.

That safety-first approach lines up with where DJI has taken its agricultural drones globally. New agricultural drones offer higher efficiency, improved safety, and better capabilities to support spraying, spreading, and now lifting, with the T100 launching alongside the T70P and T25P as part of the same global rollout. As farms continue to face labor shortages and rising costs, a single drone capable of three major field tasks signals where heavy-duty agricultural technology is heading next.