The rise of the autonomous farm
When people think about autonomous vehicles, they tend to picture city streets, motorways, robotaxis or factories. Yet one of the most demanding environments for autonomous technology is somewhere very different: the farm.
Leads emerging technology at John Deere’s Intelligent Solutions Group.
At first glance, a field might appear easier to navigate. There are no traffic lights, relatively little traffic and fewer obvious obstacles. In reality, agriculture presents an extraordinarily complex environment for automation.
A machine needs to distinguish between an object blowing across a field and an animal in its path. It must operate when visibility is reduced by dust or rain and navigate environments such as dense crops, where assumptions developed for road transport do not necessarily apply.
This is why the rise of the autonomous farm is about much more than removing the driver from the cab.
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