Farmerless farming: John Deere unveils self-driving tractor

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The world’s largest agricultural machinery manufacturer Deere & Company is launching a fully autonomous tractor later this year. “This is not a vision or a demo, but a finished product,” John Deere technology chief Jahmy Hindman said on Tuesday at the CES tech fair in Las Vegas. The announcement comes after the US company acquired robotics startup Bear Flag Robotics, which specialises in automating farm work, in mid-2021. The tractor has six pairs of stereo cameras that provide an all-round view to detect obstacles. Information from the captured images is fed through a system inspired by the b…

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