Big Picture Agriculture: Anderson believes there is a need for autonomous tractors due to the skilled labor force lacking in rural areas. The company is working with a farmer in Brazil who has 1.5 million acres and they can set the farm up using just four control towers. There are many safety features built into their controller system.
To get this tractor into a field, it will follow a pickup or another tractor accurately when put on “follow me” mode. By (secret) design, it will never leave the field that it is assigned to. It can be used to pull a grain cart, or till independently. A two-hundred horsepower drive to power a fan, mower, or auger will be available from the front or back and this tractor will accept common European-style implements. Separate implements can be used in the front and back, such as a combination of seeding with tillage or roller equipment.