Video: John Deere reveals fully autonomous tractor

John Deere has revealed a fully autonomous tractor that it says is ready for large-scale production, with its release planned for later this year.

John Deere, which unveiled the machine in Las Vegas on Tuesday (4 January), said the tractor served a specific purpose - feeding the world.

According to the US machinery firm, it combines Deere`s 8R Tractor, TruSet™-enabled chisel plow, GPS guidance system, and new advanced technologies.

It has six pairs of stereo cameras, which enables 360-degree obstacle detection and the calculation of distance.

Images captured by the cameras are passed through a deep neural network that classifies each pixel in approximately 100 milliseconds.