Is Kubota Really Thinking About This

[Motion]

Kubota Concept Tractor Rides on Polished 24s Like a Cummins Brodozer (msn.com)

 

[hagrid]

Give it to me. I will bury it up to the axles in Ten Mile crick and see how it does.

 

[mikester]

I was going to ask WTF is a Cummins Brodozer but after a quick internet search it's a device used to satisfy secret man-crushes on WWF wrestler caricatures.

 

[GrassLakeRon]

Unless it goes 70 mph I question why it needs that aerodynamic look. Tractor fronts have been art deco round, then square, and now this? I personally don't want flash, I would raw power, grunt....

 

[GreensvilleJay]

hmm, no loader on it ....
K must have a huge bank account to waste on this 'concept', even after giving 11 mill to someone who didn't read the owner's manual.
'more money than brains' come to mind.

Now IF they'd designed/offered a 2 rear remotes for TNT for the BX23 series, they'd have MADE money.....

 

[chim]

Lotsa concepts come and go. I remember the IH turbine powered tractors. Museum pieces now.

 

[lynnmor]

A couple of corn stalks and there would be fiberglass all over the place.

 

[Poohbear]

Lotsa concepts come and go. I remember the IH turbine powered tractors. Museum pieces now.

Chrysler played with turbine powered cars in the early 60's but that went nowhere. They did actually have some test cars on the road for a short time.

 

[rc51stierhoff]

At least the wheels have extra holes for wheel weights…so there is that.

 

[skeets]

Give it to me. I will bury it up to the axles in Ten Mile crick and see how it does.

Where at on 10 mile I ll bring the beer

 

[GrizBota]

Where at on 10 mile I ll bring the beer

Me too. There a couple Ten Mile Creeks in my neck of the woods too.

 

[GrizBota]

What a POS. AI for the gentleman farmer that has more money than time. Note the lack of an operator’s platform. This thing will roam the vineyard on its own while you have breakfast with the family. I’ll bet there will even a EV model if it ever to gets to production. Probably spend a month a year at the dealer with electronic gremlins being (not) sorted out.

From the article, at least the author knows what’s up.

“They're more like "rimz" with a "z," honestly. Kubota is going for the future forward look and apparently, the best way to do that is with shiny rollers. The ones out back measure 24 inches in diameter, just like you'd find on a lifted Super Duty. They're even polished to the high heavens, which vibes with the aesthetic. Now all it needs is a pair of truck nuts and a "Locally Hated" sticker that someone's sister made at home with their Cricut.

It isn't the size that's remarkable; our family's Kubota L4400 has 24-inch wheels, too. The design is what really draws your attention here as they resemble something like billet aluminum American Forces or Forgiatos. At least they're wrapped in real off-road tires with a ton of sidewall.”

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

Concept Tractor

Concept tractors are the runway models of the tractor world.
They will more then likely never see production or the real world, but it catches the eye of the corporate audience, and brings the name up!

All automotive companies do this on a yearly basis.

 

[NCL4701]

Looks a lot like a much smaller version of Case IH’s cabless prototype.

But not much like Deere’s box on wheels.

The rims are probably a marketing ploy to get people talking about it based on the “any press is good press” theory. Unlikely any production model that descended from this prototype would be shod with blingy rims.

Edit: It is a bit odd to think of an autonomous tractor in the size range of a compact tractor rather than a huge heavy ag machine. Heavy ag kind of makes sense to try to eliminate the operator (although I suspect that will be quite difficult to have no one overseeing the operation real time). Maybe small autonomous for orchard work? Can’t think of anything I do with mine where autonomy would even potentially be viable.

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

Note the lack of an operator’s platform.

Negative, it has ROPS and fenders, neither would be needed if it was strictly robotic unit.

 

[GrizBota]

Negative, it has ROPS and fenders, neither would be needed if it was strictly robotic unit.

Good eye given the top of the photo is clipped. That probably is a ROPS.

 

[hagrid]

Where at on 10 mile I ll bring the beer

The old Lone Pine Market. There's good access from the parking lot.

 

[The Evil Twin]

Concepts often bring about real changes in tech. The actual concepts rarely make it to the real world. If manufacturers didn't toy with new ideas, advancement would be negligible.
Real innovators learn more from their failures than successes.
(Note- It might be fun as a SxS)

 

[Biker1mike]

Not ROPS. Legs of a sign. Pic from CES show. I get the wheels. This was CES. Nerdvania for electronics sales and pitches. Like sparkle paint on a bass boat !

 

[GreensvilleJay]

So........ when your autonomous tractor has a 'brain fart' and does a LOT of damage, who do you sue ? Kubota, the computer maker, the computer programmer, the GPS satellite company, ??
Can you imagine the cost of insurance to RUN one of these !!!