Here's how John Deere plans to build a world of fully autonomous farming by 2030.
its fully autonomous 8R farm tractor, driven by artificial intelligence rather than a farmer behind the wheel.
While Deere made a big splash at CES and intrigued the investment community, Stephen Volkmann, equity research analyst at Jefferies, said, "We are very, very, very early in this process." The autonomous 8R represents a giant leap in current agtech, not to mention the marketing benefit. "Prior to its introduction at CES, everybody thought [full autonomy] was pie in the sky," said Scott Shearer, chair of the department of food, agricultural and biological engineering at Ohio State University.
Attached to the autonomous tractor is a 120-foot-wide boom arrayed with six pairs of stereo cameras that can "see" an obstacle in the field — whether it's a rock, a log or a person — and determine its size and relative distance. Images captured by the cameras are passed through a deep neural network that classifies each pixel in approximately 100 milliseconds and decides whether the tractor should keep moving or stop.
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