Posted on 10/07/2022 8:44:54 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Agricultural machinery company John Deere is planning to manufacture nothing but fully automated farming vehicles by 2030.
Jorge Heraud, vice president of automation and autonomy for John Deere, noted that he sees the company’s future as being a leader in the manufacturing of robotics and artificial intelligence-infused equipment alongside the tech giants of Silicon Valley. (Related: Warehouses turning to robots to fill labor gaps as e-commerce booms.)
John Deere showcased a glimpse of its future line of automated farming machinery last January when it unveiled its fully autonomous 8R farm tractor, driven by an AI rather than a farmer behind the wheel.
According to Heraud, the 8R is the culmination of Deere’s investments in automation, data analytics, GPS guidance, internet-of-things connectivity and software engineering. All of this research and development is a mix of homegrown research as well as the result of acquisitions and partnerships with agri-tech startups.
“This comes from our realization that technology is going to drive value creation and increase productivity, profitability and sustainability for farmers,” said Heraud. “The AI we use involves computer vision and machine learning.”
The science behind this technology was developed by Silicon Valley startup Blue River Technology, which John Deere acquired in 2017 for $305 million. The company’s “see and spray” robotics platform utilizes dozens of sophisticated cameras and processors to distinguish between crop plants and weeds when applying herbicides.
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was always just a matter of time.
If you can imagine any way that a robot could eventually take over your job... it will eventually
Doesn’t it mean replace farm workers? As in illegal aliens.
I don’t believe GPS tractors can pick apples.
This is going to happen eventually and corporate farms will be the beneficiary.
The US will be affected but nothing like overseas farms.
Now if they ever perfect an AI that plants, cultivates and harvests rice, then the world will change.
So much of our lives now is being reduced to parameters and terms of machines and their limitations. (Try using the ‘chat’ function on a business you’re dealing with, for instance.)
I can imagine that the quality of our diets will greatly diminish, too.
I AM a farmer.
Will I have more time now to play golf?
What’s the automated Apple picker?
I’d assume that’s in development.
Question: Do you have to buy a Robo-Deere if the government is paying you to keep your land fallow?
And they all run on petroleum
I have before. You are chatting largely with AI and the evidence is by the canned responses that reply almost instantanelously when you post any question.
Even calling to get a live person anymore is a massive time consuming boondogle of navigating beauracractic hurdles. I have to use headphones at work so I can keep working on otherstuff because each telephone call for otherwise minute things takes so freaking long.
I thought the big machines were programmed with “optimal” planting plans now and most was automated now. I also thought harvesters used the same planting plans to harvest. Farmer in the cab for safety and doing just the basics the automation couldn’t.
Please note that just because I live on land in Bama don’t make me know anything about farming.
I think I’ve seen this movie.
It doesn’t end well.😳
yeah, and it’ll be so expensive to fix that it’ll be cheaper just to buy a new one ...
Tractors that drive themselves;
Reminds me of 3 horror/scifi movies:
KillDozer
Trucks
Maximum Overdrive
But you don’t need tractors to grow crickets and meal worms?
Won't stop illegals coming in. So now you'll have illegals with idle hands.
fully automatized land commanders...
We have two automated Apple Pickers
Juan and Diego
bah dum bump! rim shot!
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