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John Deere (Deere & Company) · working robot

Autonomous 5ML orchard tractor

An orchard tractor using the second-generation kit plus lidar for dense canopies where GPS is weak; diesel first, battery version to follow.

Price
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Height
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Weight
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Payload
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Speed
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Battery
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Why it matters

A pilot use machine from John Deere.

Real-world use

Fruit and nut growers targeted

Timeline

First shown
2025-01
Released
Not yet
Shown at CES 2025

Maker

John Deere (Deere & Company)Company · founded 1837 · Moline, Illinois, United States

Public attention

How much public attention Autonomous 5ML orchard tractor gets, from open data.

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What’s inside

The parts the company has talked about publicly.

Movement
Wheeled base
How it runs
Fully autonomous. It works orchard rows with nobody in the cab while the farmer monitors it from a phone.
Chip
DRIVE AGX Orin (NVIDIA)Deere's own air-cooled vision processing units are built on NVIDIA Orin (module variant not stated).
Sensors & vision
Second-generation Deere autonomy camera kit plus added lidar, because dense tree canopies can block satellite guidance
Compute
Deere's own air-cooled embedded vision processing units built on NVIDIA Orin GPUs
AI & software
Run and monitored from John Deere Operations Center Mobile, with live video and alerts
Other details
Orchard tractor for air-blast spraying at about 2.5 mph; initial version is diesel, with a battery-electric tractor to follow.

Lineage

Every John Deere machine in order.

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  5. Autonomous battery-electric mowerAutonomous battery-electric mower2025Prototype

Watch Autonomous 5ML orchard tractor

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Made, sold and where

Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.

Price
Not published
How to get one
No official buying page found
Where it is sold or used
Deere & Company, United States
Customers and pilots
Fruit and nut growers targeted

News

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  1. Deere shows autonomous orchard tractor at CES

    Deere revealed its second-generation autonomy kit and four autonomous machines, including the 5ML orchard tractor, at CES 2025.

    DTN/Progressive Farmer

Sources

Figures come from press coverage. Every link below backs something on this page.

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