Getting Out of the Weeds with John Deere's Revolutionary AI Technology
Moore's Lobby: Where engineers talk all about circuits
- Published
- June 13, 2023
- Duration
- 55:43
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Jun 7, 2026
Discusses machine-learning.
Summary
Imagine 1500 laptops strapped to a 120 foot (36 m) wide sprayer being pulled behind a tractor. That gives you a rough understanding of the compute power inside the John Deere See & SprayTM that targets herbicide to the weeds, not the crops. These might be "the smartest agricultural machines in the world," says Chris Padwick, Director of Computer Vision an…
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Imagine 1500 laptops strapped to a 120 foot (36 m) wide sprayer being pulled behind a tractor. That gives you a rough understanding of the compute power inside the John Deere See & SprayTM that targets herbicide to the weeds, not the crops. These might be "the smartest agricultural machines in the world," says Chris Padwick, Director of Computer Vision and Machine Learning at Blue River Technology, a wholly owned subsidiary of John Deere. Padwick was not looking to return to his agricultural roo
Themes
- machine-learning