John Deere debuted an autonomous 460 P-Tier articulated dump truck for quarry operations at CES 2025 in Las Vegas.
The company says its 460 P-Tier will handle the repetitive tasks of transporting material around the quarry to facilitate different steps in the cycle.
The 460 P-Tier is one of several pieces of autonomous equipment the company launched at the show. Deere also unveiled an autonomous 9RX tractor for large-scale agriculture, an autonomous 5ML Orchard tractor for air blast spraying and an autonomous battery electric mower for commercial landscaping.
These innovations build on the company’s autonomous technology, first revealed at CES 2022. Deere’s second-generation autonomy kit combines advanced computer vision, AI, and cameras to help the machines navigate their environment, according to the company.
One factor driving these developments is the lack of skilled labor available across these industries.
“Our agriculture, construction and commercial landscaping customers all have work that must get done at certain times of the day and year, yet there is not enough available and skilled labor to do the work,” says Jahmy Hindman, chief technology officer at John Deere. “Autonomy can help address this challenge. That’s why we’re extending our technology stack to enable more machines to operate safely and autonomously in unique and complex environments. This will not only benefit our customers, but all of us who rely on them to provide the food, fuel, fiber, infrastructure and landscaping care that we depend on every day.”
Select machines will be autonomy-ready from the factory, and the second-generation perception system will be available as a retrofit kit for certain existing machines, providing customers with multiple paths to adoption based on where they are in their technology journey, Deere says.
The machines are managed via John Deere Operations Center Mobile, the company’s cloud-based platform. Through the app, users can access live video, images, data and metrics, and will have the ability to adjust various factors like speed. In the event of any job quality anomalies or machine health issues, users will be notified remotely so they can make necessary adjustments.
