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John Deere's New Self-Driving, Autonomous Tractor Costs $500,000 and Can be Controlled from a PhoneTesla’s self-driving car may be all the rage, but for Minnesota farmer Doug Nimz, that’s old news: he’s been testing autonomous technology on his 2,000-acre corn and soybean farm for John Deere for four years.In early January, John Deere announced its fully autonomous farming tractor to the world in CES 2022. Rather than creating a wholly brand-new tractor, the company improved its popular self-steering 8R tractor by adding two things: a 12 stereo camera system and an Nvidia GPU that let the farmer control the tractor from a smartphone.John Deere’s autonomous tractor system relies on a camera pod of 3 pairs of stereo cameras located at the front of the tractor. The cameras act like human eyes: images taken by the left- and right-side cameras are combined to let the tractor identify obstacles 45 to 90 feet ahead.While an autonomous tractor would surely help the agriculture industry, where labor is an ever-present problem, John Deere is not without its critics. For one, the new autonomous tractor is priced at $500,000 - a cost that puts it out-of-reach of many small farmers.#selfdriving #tractor #JohnDeere #autonomousvehicle #farming

Russian Cyberpunk Farm by birchpunk"They say that Russia is a technologically backward country," noted the description for the Russian Cyberpunk Farm video clip by birchpunk, "There are no roads, robotics do not develop, rocket do not fly, and mail goes too long. It's a bullshit."Indeed! As farmer Nikolay tells us in the clip, the cyberpunk farm life is all about the newest robots and androids, flying cars and drones, and ... fractal cucumber and genetically engineered kombucha.Completing the visual effects is the fantastic Russian Cyberfolk Song by Ensemble Vanya, Liliana Bush and Daria Scherbak.#specialeffects #vfx #sciencefiction #farming #RussianCyberpunkFarm #birchpunk #farm #robot

Pew Pew! This Smart Farming Robot Kills Weeds with LaserIf your garden got weeds, killer robot with lasers doesn't usually come to mind as a solution but that's exactly what Carbon Robotics offered for future farmers.Behold the Autonomous Weeder, a smart farming robot that lets farmers get rid of weed from their farm lands without the use of herbicide. The robot scans the ground with its 12 cameras as it drives down rows of crops. An onboard AI analyzes the images and once it identifies weeds, it directs the robot's carbon dioxide lasers to zap and kill them.While not having to use ecologically harmful herbicide is great, the bonus here is that the autonomous robot can eliminate more than 100,000 weeds per hour and can weed 15 to 20 acres of crops per day (it can even work at night), compared to a farm laborer who could only weed about 1 acre in a day.#weed #robot #farming #laser #FarmingEquipmentvia Technabob