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Autonomous 8R tractor
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Pilot useUnited StatesFully autonomous

John Deere (Deere & Company) · working robot

Autonomous 8R tractor

An 8R tractor fitted with cameras and AI so it can till a field with no one in the cab, monitored from a phone.

Price
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Height
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Weight
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Battery
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Why it matters

Deere's first production-scale fully driverless tractor shown publicly.

Real-world use

No customers or deployments reported yet.

Timeline

First shown
2022-01-04
Released
Not yet
CES 2022, Las Vegas

Maker

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

Public attention

How much public attention Autonomous 8R tractor gets, from open data.

  • No Wikipedia article of its own yet
  • 3 news stories from reputable press listed on this page

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What’s inside

The parts the company has talked about publicly.

Movement
Wheeled base
How it runs
Fully autonomous. It tills fields with nobody in the cab while the farmer monitors from a phone.
Sensors & vision
Six pairs of stereo cameras for 360-degree obstacle detection (2022); second-generation kit uses 16 cameras
Compute
On-board processing of camera images with neural networks (chip not named)
AI & software
GPS guidance with geofencing; farmer sets up and monitors it with the John Deere Operations Center mobile app
Other details
Based on the 8R row-crop tractor, paired with a tillage tool

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Watch Autonomous 8R tractor

Video: John Deere (@JohnDeere) on YouTube. Plays from youtube-nocookie.com when you press play.

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
Sold or delivered
Deere planned shipments from the second half of 2022; sales model (outright, lease or subscription) was left open at launch
Where it is sold or used
United States

News

The latest 3, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.

  1. Deere shows second-gen autonomy at CES 2025

    Deere extended autonomy to more machines with a 16-camera perception kit.

    DTN Progressive Farmer
  2. Deere unveils autonomous 8R

    Deere showed a driverless 8R tractor at CES 2022 with six stereo camera pairs.

    AgFunderNews
  3. Deere to bring autonomous tractor to market

    Deere said the driverless tractor would be sold to US farmers later in 2022.

    Transport Topics (Bloomberg)

Sources

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

DTN Progressive Farmer Deere reveals new autonomous tech deere.com Autonomous 8R tractor: how it is operated John Deere (release via PR Newswire) John Deere Reveals Fully Autonomous Tractor at CES 2022

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