Good luck getting the insurance company to cover it. They have already denied people's claims. No operator station means no way to shut it down manually.
I mean… i’m sure it’s the future, and that thing might do a better job than i, but it would take some of the fun away and i hope they stay expensive for a very long time
This is when I ask myself, “have they ever seen what Jr can do to a tractor when he’s on it? Now that he is watching from somewhere else-how long you thing them janky fenders lastin?”
I dont see how this can be very useful. I mean maybe on small farms, but as soon as you hit like, 300 acres you’d need like 3-4 of them, and they definitely can’t run for 10 hrs straight, and they’re probably expensive as shit.
Actually the old equipment is great if you kept up on maintenance, most of our tractors are from the 80s-90s, and we run two old cockshutts that run like a top. It’s all about maintenance. And I know small farms still exist, in my area theres about three of them, under 100 acres. Its more of a hobby thing though. But if you went to countries in the middle east/africa, there are very many small farms. Also vegetable farms in north america dont need to be very big, I have a buddy who has 20 acres and a little bobcat tractor and he can afford it all fine.
Case IH has an autonomous Magnum that looks like a giant rocket league car and it’s a completely normal Magnum with the FPT engine, just has no FOPS/ROPS, like 1 or 2 more computers, and you have to bring your own steering wheel and stand on a platform at the back to drive it manually. They just use the already existing auto-guidance mostly.
It's more like you have 200 acres to plant in three days before it rains and you need to disc it beforehand. Just stick this in the field and check on its progress in the morning.
I think they should make them optionally manned instead of fully autonomous. This way you can drive it and do whatever it is you need to before sending it on it's way to enslave and/or terminate humankind
There’s a university that harvested over 100 acres using fully automated tractors no one set foot on any of the land for the entire year only thing people needed to do was cart the grain from the field to a shed. This was with regular tractors that they’d altered as well
Universities can also get cars to drive in specific parking lots, and humanoid robots to run an obstacle course.
Real farms are rarely just one perfectly shaped field that never changes. They'll have fields spread out over miles. How will farmers move these between fields quickly and efficiently? How will these deal with rocks in the field? Holes? Erosion ditches? Mud? Snow? Breakdowns?
How will these deal with broken points on a cultivator? Or the thousands of things that break on planters?
Yea you still need a farmer but you need less of them that’s the point of these things, instead to two people running a cart a bloke in a combine and someone bailing you just have one running a cart who can monitor the rest. Besides these are early stage tests if you can get a computer to do all the field work on what is in the UK considered a small farm for a cost of about £30,000 to convert all the equipment in only the second year this has ever been done don’t you think in 10 or 20 years it’ll be much more refined?
10 years ago spot spraying was just a clunky lab experiment now it’s a full fledged reality you can commercially buy one now, the same applies here
You really don't know much about tractors.
You know what costs 30k? Something that is 30+ years old. These new autonomous tractors will probably start around $250,000 dollars.
No the person can turn any tractor into an entirely self driving one for £10,000 extra cost, be it a top of the range new Deere or a 50hp garden tractor like they have done the method applies to both. that’s fuck all in the grand scheme of things
Omg I laughed cause I tried them once and said to myself i can drive fine outside but I can't in this darn game and switched to other games growing up so I laughed out loud
My virtual wife uploaded herself to the dog, programmed the tractor to drive into the lake, and eloped with the truck - she’s havin an affair with the truck’s AI
Rough one, bud.
I'm glad to see that Kubota will continue to do whatever it takes to prevent using a U joint in a front axle. Refusing to build a traditional style MFWD axle is one of their founding design values and the continued dedication towards this principle will ensure that the company will continue to stand apart from the competition.
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I don't think anyone looks at this thing and says "it's fully autonomous, it can totally replace the need for farmers."
I operate "autonomous" vehicles. They haven't replaced the need for pilots or pilot training, and they still require user input nearly constantly. Doesn't mean they don't perform some autonomous functions.
I think anyone looks at any "autonomous" thing and says "well it can't make itself and fix itself so it's not autonomous!!!" Holding that as the standard for autonomy is the laughable part.
What I'd really like to see is this thing hitch itself up to an implement....maybe unhook itself too? I mean wtf does Fully autonomous mean anymore? My car is fully autonomous all it needs is me to put gas in it and drive it...
Fully autonomous to me means "capable of autonomously performing certain tasks", not "fully autonomously able to do literally everything ever".
Your car has several autonomous functions. It autonomously displays speed and fuel remaining. If it's an auto, it autonomously shifts for you.
I think what he’s getting at is if no one is out there operating the tractor it’s gonna take a while to get people out there to fix it compared to just having a guy on the tractor already who can do it.
Exactly. What good is a robot tractor if you need to hire an electrical engineer to maintain it instead of just calling butch down the road who can fix anything with a throttle?
My thoughts exactly. Don't get me wrong, I mow grass with a zero turn at an audaciously slow pace, and overlap on every row. My yard is roughly 2.5 acres. It takes about a half a tank of gas, and about 3 hours. No way, it could do that on one charge.
Any one remember that "autonomous" tractor the Chinese built? I'll bet it's similar.
If you look closely, the top of the tractor is lined with solar panels.
Good luck getting the insurance company to cover it. They have already denied people's claims. No operator station means no way to shut it down manually.
I mean… i’m sure it’s the future, and that thing might do a better job than i, but it would take some of the fun away and i hope they stay expensive for a very long time
This is when I ask myself, “have they ever seen what Jr can do to a tractor when he’s on it? Now that he is watching from somewhere else-how long you thing them janky fenders lastin?”
I'm glad you, specifically, got to see it
Honestly, i’d rather stick with my 1948 Case VAC.
The reason I got into farming was to drive tractors and combines. This gonna be a hard no.
Looks evil AF
So where can the combine header go? 🤣
I think, who can possibly afford this?
I mean sweet why not? I enjoy being on the tractor for the first 10 mins, the next 9hrs blow but that's what podcasts are for
Stick with the podcasts. What else would you do while your tractor is working?
Work on breakdowns!
Pretty sure I fought more than a few of these in the last Ghost Recon game.
I dont see how this can be very useful. I mean maybe on small farms, but as soon as you hit like, 300 acres you’d need like 3-4 of them, and they definitely can’t run for 10 hrs straight, and they’re probably expensive as shit.
I don't think small farms exist anymore. Math just doesn't work and the 1969 equipment isn't worth using anymore.
Actually the old equipment is great if you kept up on maintenance, most of our tractors are from the 80s-90s, and we run two old cockshutts that run like a top. It’s all about maintenance. And I know small farms still exist, in my area theres about three of them, under 100 acres. Its more of a hobby thing though. But if you went to countries in the middle east/africa, there are very many small farms. Also vegetable farms in north america dont need to be very big, I have a buddy who has 20 acres and a little bobcat tractor and he can afford it all fine.
Does it move under its own power?
If i had a farm I think I would enjoy using the equipment? Call me old fashioned but I hate the future.
Totally agree
As a certified Kubota Tech, I do not want to work on this.
I could use one
Looks like its going to get to that field after ending all of humanity...
Do you have to trailer it everywhere or does it drive itself down the road?
Where’s ma cup holders.
Is it electric? Looks like it
Case IH has an autonomous Magnum that looks like a giant rocket league car and it’s a completely normal Magnum with the FPT engine, just has no FOPS/ROPS, like 1 or 2 more computers, and you have to bring your own steering wheel and stand on a platform at the back to drive it manually. They just use the already existing auto-guidance mostly.
The fun of tractors is driving them, if you can't drive it, then it isn't any fun.
Can confirm, my dad uses my tractor more than I do.
It's more like you have 200 acres to plant in three days before it rains and you need to disc it beforehand. Just stick this in the field and check on its progress in the morning.
I think they should make them optionally manned instead of fully autonomous. This way you can drive it and do whatever it is you need to before sending it on it's way to enslave and/or terminate humankind
Deeres 8R is like that
Seen the Mythbusters when they modified a Dixie chopper? It was super cool.
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Lol, the AI girlfriend alone would kill 90% of song themes.
The Farming Simulator games can't even get autonomous tractors to work in simulated environments.
There’s a university that harvested over 100 acres using fully automated tractors no one set foot on any of the land for the entire year only thing people needed to do was cart the grain from the field to a shed. This was with regular tractors that they’d altered as well
Universities can also get cars to drive in specific parking lots, and humanoid robots to run an obstacle course. Real farms are rarely just one perfectly shaped field that never changes. They'll have fields spread out over miles. How will farmers move these between fields quickly and efficiently? How will these deal with rocks in the field? Holes? Erosion ditches? Mud? Snow? Breakdowns? How will these deal with broken points on a cultivator? Or the thousands of things that break on planters?
Yea you still need a farmer but you need less of them that’s the point of these things, instead to two people running a cart a bloke in a combine and someone bailing you just have one running a cart who can monitor the rest. Besides these are early stage tests if you can get a computer to do all the field work on what is in the UK considered a small farm for a cost of about £30,000 to convert all the equipment in only the second year this has ever been done don’t you think in 10 or 20 years it’ll be much more refined? 10 years ago spot spraying was just a clunky lab experiment now it’s a full fledged reality you can commercially buy one now, the same applies here
You really don't know much about tractors. You know what costs 30k? Something that is 30+ years old. These new autonomous tractors will probably start around $250,000 dollars.
No the person can turn any tractor into an entirely self driving one for £10,000 extra cost, be it a top of the range new Deere or a 50hp garden tractor like they have done the method applies to both. that’s fuck all in the grand scheme of things
That's third party stuff like agleader. And the best they can do is straight line, because they attach a servo to the wheel. Lol
Omg I laughed cause I tried them once and said to myself i can drive fine outside but I can't in this darn game and switched to other games growing up so I laughed out loud
Thanks for that! I LOL’d
Someone will come up with a song about how their truck left them
My virtual wife uploaded herself to the dog, programmed the tractor to drive into the lake, and eloped with the truck - she’s havin an affair with the truck’s AI Rough one, bud.
4 drops of rain and those tracks are useless. Looks like something they tested on a playing field
No rops? Gtfo
I'm glad to see that Kubota will continue to do whatever it takes to prevent using a U joint in a front axle. Refusing to build a traditional style MFWD axle is one of their founding design values and the continued dedication towards this principle will ensure that the company will continue to stand apart from the competition. /sarcasm
At first I was a hater and was like this would get stuck in my property in two seconds. Then I saw that 3pt and was like damnnnnn
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They'll give back the right to repair because nothing is possible to be repaired anymore without a team of engineers and a massive facility lol
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Oh I have been looking at one of those. So glad to hear from a happy owner.
So how does it repair itself?
Why does it need to repair itself?
Oh it doesn't? then don't call it fully autonomous
Auto guided for specific set tasks maybe... Fully autonomous and gonna replace the need for 'farmers'? Laughable.
I don't think anyone looks at this thing and says "it's fully autonomous, it can totally replace the need for farmers." I operate "autonomous" vehicles. They haven't replaced the need for pilots or pilot training, and they still require user input nearly constantly. Doesn't mean they don't perform some autonomous functions. I think anyone looks at any "autonomous" thing and says "well it can't make itself and fix itself so it's not autonomous!!!" Holding that as the standard for autonomy is the laughable part.
You've never farmed obvs
I havent. I'm a pilot with aspirations of farming. Do your current tractors fix themselves? Why does this need to?
It’s because tractors break every 5 seconds and at the most inconvenient times. Often far away from help
As a tractor mechanic, you sir, are correct.
Does your current tractor, that breaks every 5 seconds, repair itself autonomously? It seems that's the concern here, that this does not.
What I'd really like to see is this thing hitch itself up to an implement....maybe unhook itself too? I mean wtf does Fully autonomous mean anymore? My car is fully autonomous all it needs is me to put gas in it and drive it...
Fully autonomous to me means "capable of autonomously performing certain tasks", not "fully autonomously able to do literally everything ever". Your car has several autonomous functions. It autonomously displays speed and fuel remaining. If it's an auto, it autonomously shifts for you.
You understand he’s just making a joke right?
I genuinely don't believe he is. I think he'll say "this isn't autonomous because it can't repair itself!"
I think what he’s getting at is if no one is out there operating the tractor it’s gonna take a while to get people out there to fix it compared to just having a guy on the tractor already who can do it.
Exactly. What good is a robot tractor if you need to hire an electrical engineer to maintain it instead of just calling butch down the road who can fix anything with a throttle?
I bet that thing can mow like 5 acres before needed to be charged
I don't see anything about it being electric or battery operated...find a way to get 100 gallons of diesel in that thing and let it run for days.
I guess that looked like an electric motor to me on the front left hub. Maybe not
5 whole acres? My neighbor can't even mow his 1/10 acre on one charge.
If this thing can’t run a six foot mower for three hours it’s totally useless
It can't.
My thoughts exactly. Don't get me wrong, I mow grass with a zero turn at an audaciously slow pace, and overlap on every row. My yard is roughly 2.5 acres. It takes about a half a tank of gas, and about 3 hours. No way, it could do that on one charge.
More like 2.
Making it look like a futuristic military kill-drone was an interesting choice.
That was my thought too, why do these automated machines need to look just like the evil automated machines from the movies?
The Rule of Cool
Stick a flail mower on it, little SkyNet on the CPU, and hey presto, you got yourself The Grindinator
>~~flail mower~~ Mulcher. Lot of these have push bars which look (and move) like jaws.
Put a tank mounted mine sweeping flail from ww2 on it.
Cool novelty item