John Deere has had a number of new products introduced recently. CES 2025Including an electric robotic lawnmower intended for commercial-grade landscaping.
Powered by a 21.4kWh battery — about a quarter of the size you'd find in a passenger EV — the company says the mower can run for up to 10 hours. It uses four stereo cameras to provide a 360-degree view.
with electricity The mower is quieter than its gas-powered predecessors. John Deere says it will allow work to begin early in the morning. But the company has made no secret of its hope that the harvester will replace human labor. in fact, A company is cited in materials distributed to the press prior to the show. Report Keeping qualified workers on staff is a “huge challenge,” says one landscape management software company.
“Our agriculture, Construction and commercial landscape clients all have jobs to do.
At certain times of the day and year; But there aren't enough available and skilled workers to do that work,” John Deere Chief Technology Officer Jahmy Hindman said in a statement. “Autonomy can help solve this.
challenge.”
John Deere's other CES 2025 announcements are also centered around autonomy, and by definition bigger.
I have a 5ML garden tractor that can blow crops. John Deere says a “battery tractor of the same size and capacity” will follow at some point, but it will start as a diesel-only tractor. The company also showed the larger 9RX tractor for tillage, which uses a 16-camera array.
The largest vehicle is an autonomous articulated dump truck built for the quarry industry. These types of sites have been utilizing autonomy for a long time, and the new 460 P-Tier dump truck John Deere showed off at CES is the latest.
Each of those products will increase an important but dirty job that many people don't think about. And they are equally likely to replace or increase. But it's the robotic lawnmower that most of us are likely to encounter in the near future. We don't know when — a representative for John Deere said, “We cannot share an exact time at this time.”