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John Deere

John Deere makes Autonomous 8R / 9R tractors and autonomy kits, which is at stage 4 of 5: paying customers.

Website: deere.com
Based in: United States
Latest milestone: 11 Oct 2025

01Robots

What John Deere makes

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Autonomous 8R / 9R tractors and autonomy kitsFarm · Driverless farm tractorStage 4 of 5 · Paying customersJohn Deere sells camera kits that let its big 8R and 9R tractors work a field with no one in the cab. The farmer sets the job up and watches it on a phone app.Autonomous tillage (working the soil) on corn and soybean fields in the US Midwest.The full record

02Track record

Every dated event

11 Oct 2025Milestone
Deere said farmers can do tillage on their own fields with its autonomy upgrade, and that autumn 2025 would be its biggest season yet for the number of machines running.
AgriNews, 11 Oct 2025Company-reported
6 Jan 2025Milestone
At CES 2025 Deere showed a second-generation autonomy kit with 16 cameras for a 360-degree view, and extended autonomy to the larger 9RX tractor.
DTN Progressive Farmer, 6 Jan 2025Company-reported
6 Jan 2025Milestone
Deere said the retrofit kits fit 9R and 9RX tractors from model year 2022 on, and newer 8R and 8RX tractors.
AgWeb, 6 Jan 2025Company-reported
23 Nov 2022Milestone
Bloomberg reported that farmers were already paying Deere to use its automation for tillage work in autumn 2022.
Bloomberg (via BNN Bloomberg), 23 Nov 2022Company-reported
5 Jan 2022Milestone
At the CES tech show in Las Vegas, John Deere showed a driverless version of its 8R row-crop tractor and called it commercially available.
AgFunderNews, 5 Jan 2022Company-reported

03Money

On the stock market

John Deere trades as DE on NYSE. Google Finance, DE:NYSE

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