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John Deere started with the 8R because it's the company's most popular row crop tractor, and it already "was nearly autonomy ready," said Joe Liefer, senior product manager of autonomy at John Deere.
The 8R tractor has been in select customers’ hands for “a few seasons” now, according to John Deere. After all, like any kind of autonomous machinery, a self-driving tractor isn’t the kind ...
A man has been arrested after a motorcyclist died in a crash with a tractor in Herefordshire. The collision happened on the A449 Ross Road, near Ledbury, just after 10:30 BST on Saturday. The woman, ...
Farming equipment giant John Deere has unveiled its first self-driving tractor, that can be controlled by farmers using a smartphone and run 24 hours a day.
John Deere recently revealed a new machine that the company said can help make farmers' jobs much easier -- a self-driving tractor! Company officials said it's been in the works for about 25 years ...
More specifically, it’s the self-driving John Deere 8R tractor that can plow fields, avoid obstacles, and plant crops with minimal human intervention. It looks a lot like any other John Deere ...
John Deere reveals self-driving tractor, 25 years in the making, that will bring automation to agriculture. FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Now that spring has arrived, it's going to be a busy time for ...
John Deere is delivering: It unveiled a self-driving tractor at CES 2022 that’s ready for mass production and that’s expected to begin working in late 2022.
WATERLOO — John Deere will begin producing a self-propelled, driverless “autonomous” tractor in Waterloo before the end of 2022, company officials here have confirmed.
The John Deere 8R autonomous tractor is on display Jan. 6 at the CES 2022 trade show in Las Vegas. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) CES is the trade show for cool kids, where the future of technology ...
John Deere will use ruggedized user terminals, which will be installed on compatible tractors, along with a 4G LTE JDLink modem to connect to the John Deere Operations Center.