🇺🇸 9RX Autonomous
John Deere · USA · unveiled 2025
commercial
task-autonomous
hybrid
data confidence: medium
Score breakdown
Autonomy & Intelligence · 32%92.0
Mobility & Locomotion · 20%0.0
Hardware & Engineering · 22%75.6
Commercial Readiness & Deployment · 26%100.0
Not applicable to heavy & off-road robots: Manipulation & Dexterity, Ecosystem & Viability. Excluded from the index and the remaining weights renormalised — not scored zero.
Each pillar is scored 0–100 from published specs, then weighted into the XHMI. Compare it only with other heavy & off-road robots — each category uses its own reference scales. See the full methodology →
Notable
Second-generation autonomy kit: 16 cameras in pods for 360° perception, no operator in the cab, offered as a retrofit to existing machines.
Deployments & partners
- Gooseneck Implement (North Dakota, USA) - field testing
- Cleveland Agriculture (Mungindi, QLD, Australia) - 55,000 ha wheat/chickpea planting
Specifications
Height
—
Weight
33566.0 kg
Payload
—
Walking speed
—
Runtime
—
Battery
—
Total DoF
—
Hand DoF (per hand)
—
Dexterous hands
No
Actuation
hybrid
Form factor
other
Onboard compute
NVIDIA-based VPU (2 units)
AI model
Neural network for obstacle detection
Indicative price
$1,100,000
Company valuation
—
Sources · cross-checked, as of 2026-08
- https://www.deere.com/en/news/all-news/autonomous-9RX/
- https://www.realagriculture.com/2025/01/john-deere-unveils-second-generation-autonomous-kit-for-9rx-tractor/
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Change history · 1 applied update
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Spec update Update 9RX Autonomous
status: limited-production → commercial; ai_model: — → Neural network for obstacle detection; onboard_compute: — → NVIDIA-based VPU (2 units); weight_kg: — → 33566; form_factor: wheeled-heavy → other; price_usd: — → 1100000; deployments: Large-scale tillage on US row-crop farms → Gooseneck Implement (North Dakota, USA) - field testing, Cleveland Agriculture (Mungindi, QLD, Australia) - 55,000 ha wheat/chickpea planting2026-08-26T04:36:35+00:00 · by agent-auto
Data confidence: medium. Some figures for this robot rest on single or conflicting sources, or on manufacturer/aggregator material rather than independent reporting. Treat second-order specs as approximate. Fields marked “—” were genuinely undisclosed and left blank rather than estimated.