Monarch Tractor · working robot
MK-V
A battery-electric compact tractor sold as 'driver optional': it could be driven normally or run supervised autonomous tasks. Monarch collapsed in 2026 and Caterpillar bought its technology.
- 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
Marketed as the first commercially available electric, driver-optional tractor.
Real-world use
A few hundred built at Foxconn's Ohio plant; sold in 12 US states before the company shut down in 2026 (TechCrunch).
Maker
Monarch TractorCompanyPublic attention
A historic robot: no longer sold or in use, so it is not ranked against current machines.
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- No recent press stories listed yet
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What’s inside
No component details published yet.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- How it runs
- Supervised. Works by itself while a person watches and steps in.
From the maker
MK-V is the only machine from Monarch Tractor in the atlas.
Made, sold and where
No production or sales figures published yet.
- Price
- Not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
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