Autonomy will support Deere customers across agriculture, construction, and commercial landscaping.
John Deere revealed several new autonomous machines during a press conference at CES 2025 to support customers in agriculture, construction, and commercial landscaping. Building on Deere’s autonomous technology first revealed at CES 2022, the company’s second-generation autonomy kit combines advanced computer vision, AI, and cameras to help the machines navigate their environments.
While each of these industries experiences their own set of challenges, a commonality across all is skilled labour availability. In the USA, 85% of construction contractors and 86% of landscaping businesses struggle to find skilled labour. Autonomy can help address this challenge. That’s why John Deere is extending autonomous technology to enable more machines to operate safely and autonomously in unique and complex environments.
Autonomy has now been expanded to the following machines:
- Autonomous 9RX Tractor for Large-Scale Agriculture
- Autonomous 5ML Orchard Tractor for Air Blast Spraying
- 460 P-Tier Autonomous Articulated Dump Truck (ADT) for Quarry Operations
- Autonomous Battery Electric Mower for Commercial Landscaping
Select machines will be autonomy ready from the factory and the second-generation perception system will be available as a retrofit kit for certain existing machines, providing customers with multiple paths to adoption based on where they are in their technology journey.
The machines are managed via John Deere Operations Center Mobile, the company’s cloud-based platform. By swiping left to right to start, the machine can be started once placed in the appropriate spot. Through the app, users also have access to live video, images, data and metrics, and the ability to adjust various factors like speed. In the event of any job quality anomalies or machine health issues, users will be notified remotely so they can make necessary adjustments. Source