John Deere one step closer to fully autonomous farming

John Deere has acquired a state-of-the-art algorithm package from AI startup Light as it continues to advance its roadmap toward autonomous farming.

The purchase is expected to help advance the group’s deployment of AI in its product line and improve the speed and safety of its equipment while concurrently reducing human intervention.

Originally a camera provider for smartphones, Light has become a major figure in the AV sector, with its multi-array system of cameras designed to mimic the structure of a human eye to enable more accurate 3D vision. This mechanism has been heralded by Light as affording greater depth-perception than lidar – the system currently favored for AV vision – with Light’s solution capable of calculating the distance to every pixel seen.

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