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The system combines the 8R tractor, TruSet-enabled chisel plow, GPS guidance, and six pairs of stereo cameras for 360-degree obstacle detection, enabling fully driverless tillage. Doug Nimz, a multigenerational corn and soybean farmer from Minnesota, was one of the first farmers worldwide to test the system and was featured in Deere's CES 2022 reveal. Commercial deliveries to Iowa and Upper Midwest farms followed through 2022 and 2023. The platform also supports See & Spray precision herbicide application, which reached approximately 5 million acres by 2025 at roughly 50% herbicide reduction. 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Its most mature robotics product is See & Spray, a computer-vision targeted-herbicide system descended from Blue River Technology (acquired in 2017 for about $305 million), which covered roughly 5 million acres in 2025 at around a 50 percent average herbicide reduction. Deere's Autonomous 8R tractor, revealed at CES 2022, operates commercially but only for tillage, and its perception stack draws on Bear Flag Robotics (acquired in August 2021 for $250 million). At CES 2025 Deere revealed a second generation of autonomy: the Autonomous 9RX large tractor, a 5ML orchard tractor, a 460 P-Tier articulated dump truck, and a battery-electric mower, though Deere published no firm ship dates, so these are treated as early or limited rollout, with the dump truck in pilot trials and the mower pre-commercial. Deere's stated goal is to deliver a fully autonomous corn and soybean production system by 2030, a demonstration and availability target rather than a fleet-scale deployment promise. The frequently cited figure of 1 to 2 million autonomous machines could not be verified and appears to conflate a separate connected-machines connectivity goal, so it is not asserted here.","formFactor":"agriculture","industryVertical":"agriculture","environment":"outdoor","maturityStage":"commercial","lifecycleState":"active","supersededByModelId":null,"specs":{"crop":"corn and soybean","notes":[{"label":"Verified (commercial)","value":"See & Spray (Select/Ultimate; vision-targeted herbicide, Blue River Technology lineage acquired 2017 for $305M) is Deere's most mature ag-robotics product: ~5 million acres covered in 2025 (~50% average herbicide reduction). The Autonomous 8R (revealed CES 2022) operates commercially for TILLAGE only. Bear Flag Robotics (autonomy retrofit) acquired Aug 2021 for $250M underpins the perception stack."},{"label":"Early/limited commercial","value":"The CES 2025 second-gen machines (Autonomous 9RX large tractor, 5ML orchard tractor) moved toward orderable/retrofit status but Deere published no firm ship dates; treat as early/limited rollout. The 460 P-Tier autonomous dump truck is in PILOT/trials; the battery-electric mower is newly launching/pre-commercial."},{"label":"Verified-vs-claimed","value":"Deere's stated goal is a fully autonomous corn/soybean production SYSTEM by 2030 (a demonstration/availability target, not fleet-scale deployment). The often-cited '1-2 million autonomous machines' figure could NOT be verified and appears to conflate a separate ~1.5M connected-machines-by-2026 connectivity goal; NOT asserted here. 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