Autonomous 8R Tractor | John Deere Precision Ag

Introducing John Deere's autonomous 8R Tractor for large-scale production. The 8R tractor with a TruSet™-enabled chisel plow, StarFire™ GPS guidance system, and new advanced technologies will help farmers grow more for a growing planet.

The John Deere autonomous tractor has six pairs of stereo cameras, which enables 360-degree obstacle detection and the calculation of distance. Images captured by the cameras are passed through a deep neural network that classifies each pixel in approximately 100 milliseconds and determines if the machine continues to move or stops, depending on if an obstacle is detected. John Deere's autonomous tractor is also continuously checking its position relative to a geofence, ensuring it is operating where it is supposed to, and is within less than an inch of accuracy.

To use the John Deere autonomous tractor, a farmer only needs to transport the machine to a field and configure it for autonomous operation. Using John Deere Operations Center Mobile, he or she can swipe from left to right to start the machine. While the machine is working the farmer can leave the field to focus on other tasks, while monitoring the machine’s status from their mobile device.

Our autonomous tractor serves a specific purpose: feeding the world. The global population is expected to grow from about 8 billion to nearly 10 billion people by 2050, increasing the global food demand by 50%. Furthermore, farmers must feed this growing population with less available land and skilled labor, and work through the variables inherent in farming like changing weather conditions and climate, variations in soil quality and the presence of weeds and pests. All of these factors impact a farmer’s ability to farm during the most critical times of the year.

John Deere Operations Center Mobile provides access to live video, images, data and metrics, and allows a farmer to adjust speed, depth and more. In the event of any job quality anomalies or machine health issues, farmers will be notified remotely and can make adjustments to optimize the performance of the machine.

0:00 - Driven by Customer Input: 4th Generation Farmer, Doug Nimz
1:00 - Fully Autonomous Operation Controlled by John Deere Operations Center Mobile
1:59 - Overcoming Labor Shortage & Weather Challenges
2:35 - Future of Farming Technology

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[farmboy]

To work was the fun stuff. They need to build tractors that do not need to use anything related to the DEF systems. Use automation to self-diagnose electrical or mechanical problems to reduce down-time. Use automation for greasing all grease points (except u-joints). Use automation to figure out where to best put various filter locations and drain plugs for easier maintenance. Use automation to detect hot bearings, to prevent fires.

[JD-ohvz]

Love seeing all the new technologies however part of the enjoyment of farming is not only watching a crop grow but to also be able to drive or operate the machinery. Let’s not forget the reason why those of us love it so much. If I couldn’t operate the machine then I wouldn’t want to farm but thank you Johndeere for all that you do.

[jakebakker]

I feel like labour is not the killer on the farm. It’s the inputs. Fertilizer, seed, diesel, equipment, land. All that has way more impact than labour. I worked on a 5000 acre cash crop farm 10 years ago and we did everything with 4 guys.

[landonfogle]

More stuff to break and can't fix. Thanks john deere👍 give farmers the right to repair

[Irish_National_Liberation_Army]

100 years from now: what an old tractor belongs in a museum.

[stmcelroy]

Farming to me has always been around running the equipment. It’s the Cherry on top.

[pedroguevara]

amazing .... still working on a tractor and tilling your land is a priceless experience

[bigcheese]

Here you have a tractor where comfort was it’s top priority and now your not gonna drive the thing. A big part of farming is watching your crop grow. Goes from tillage to spraying to harvesting.

[GeografiaDasCoisas]

Amazing demonstration and proof of concept. Like all John Deere institutional videos, they take us to a US view of agriculture, happy families, etc. We are ready to test it in Brazil, a country of continental dimensions, with agricultural territories living in the fourth Industrial Revolution, and others in the Third, Second, First... As a Professor and Specialist in the area (Precision Farming), always enthusiastic about innovation. As a Brazilian, always concerned with creating a vision that a modern and digital agriculture necessarily needs investments and equipment almost always inaccessible, either for lack of education, training, infrastructure or investments.

[PrestigeWorldWidePWW]

Wow, the front tires are in correctly... 👏

[SAVAGECUMMINS]

Very impressive technology but I also see alot of hurdles yet to overcome, like many have said about shear bolts or flat tires, if you have to baby sit it, might as well drive it yourself... At the same time, if weather was turning and you could have to following a combine with tillage or following a planter with a roller, where 2 machines are in the field at the same time, then you can keep an eye on it and get 2 jobs done

[viniciusazevedo]

Amazing technology and I am all for it self driving buses, tractor trailer, cabs ... and I want my groceries delivered right to my door step

[farmerpatriot]

No way that would work in my gumbo fields! Disk always plugging, having to work around mud holes, work over and around ditches. We love auto steer, but that would be a complete nightmare in a river bottom.

[cajunnathan]

A Great Way to To get more done during good weather so, you are finished when the Bad Weather comes.

[davidheinrichspeters]

Yeah like they already said driving the tractor is the most fun use automation in greasing and cleaning things!

[shiestytrey]

We can tell that technology have came a a long way. Technology is so Advance where tractor can drive there self’s

[Mattguyverr]

There is no sunset prettier than watching the sun go down while harvesting a bumper crop. A years worth of prayers answered. Your wife and kids bring a hot meal to the field to eat while sitting on the tailgate of the pickup. Your son begs for a ride before he goes back to the house with mom. His little hands grip the steering wheel under yours. You can't help but kick the clutch and just enjoy the moment looking at gods creation while dreaming of his future. There is no robot that will ever replace that.

[bradengruhlkey]

What happens when a bearing goes out or have a ball up on the plow from trash plugging.

[gavrielgreen]

Ive played with remote conrol cars as a kid so this tractor is also for me

[Steve-sfeq]

It’s while it’s awesome it also sucks that we are in a world of Automation. It’s taking away from the working man I grew up on a farm and spend hour on all ages of John deere tractors and it was the part of farm that allowed you to get away and breath from time to time.