Daedong showcases AI-powered tractors, smart farming innovations at CES 2025

Daedong’s Kioti RX7340 tractor / Korea Instances photograph by Nam Hyun-woo

LAS VEGAS — Korean mid-sized agriculture equipment agency Daedong is searching for to develop its presence within the world market, showcasing its synthetic intelligence (AI)-powered tractors, AI plant field and different agricultural equipment at CES 2025 in Las Vegas.

At its sales space on Friday (native time), Daedong showcased its RX sequence utility tractor, which may drive and carry out farming duties autonomously utilizing on-device AI. In keeping with the corporate, the superior Kioti tractor achieves level-4.5 autonomous driving, as outlined by the automated farming requirements set by the Korean Company for Know-how and Requirements in 2022.

Daedong’s sales space at CES 2025 / Korea Instances photograph by Nam Hyun-woo

Along with the RX sequence, a number of Daedong tractors offered below the Kioti model in North America are geared up with imaginative and prescient sensors that autonomously create boundary maps with out human enter. These tractors may also robotically detect attachments and decide the duties to be carried out, enabling them to make unbiased choices throughout operation.

In keeping with a Daedong official on the sales space, self-driving Kioti tractors at the moment are obtainable solely in Korea however the firm will quickly develop gross sales to worldwide markets. Beginning in 2026, the tractors will likely be operable remotely by way of the corporate’s connectivity app.

The app, Daedong Join, will even present chat-based help associated to farming by way of a generative AI system specialised in agriculture and equipment.

John Deere’s 460 P-Tier autonomous articulated dump truck is displayed on the firm’s sales space at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Thursday (native time). Korea Instances photograph by Nam Hyun-woo

Daedong’s autonomous tractor know-how was considerably just like the improvements showcased by John Deere, the world’s largest farm tools producer, at CES 2025.

At its sales space, John Deere displayed a driverless fleet together with its huge 460 P-Tier autonomous articulated dump truck. Whereas Daedong is about to debut its app-control subsequent 12 months, John Deere stated the truck already permits its operator to design and management the truck’s missions with an app.

Daedong is nicknamed the Tesla of agriculture in Korea, however it’s a firm with heritage. Headquartered in Daegu, it was established in 1947 as a equipment store that produced Korea’s first domestically produced engine in 1949. In 2021, the corporate launched Korea’s first remote-controlled and autonomous driving tractor, the HX sequence, and now greater than 70 % of its annual income is generated from the North American market.

At its first-ever CES, Daedong’s AI Plant Field gained the CES 2025 Innovation Award. This AI-driven home-farming equipment makes use of a capsule-based system to robotically regulate environmental elements akin to temperature, humidity and water provide, optimizing plant development and permitting customers to reap wholesome greens tailor-made to their dietary wants.

Daedong’s plant field gained further consideration at CES 2025 as a result of it was exhibited on the sales space of Samsung Electronics, some of the crowded on the whole present.

The plant field was built-in as a third-party gadget into Samsung’s SmartThings ecosystem. If Samsung’s well being care AI detects poor sleep high quality, it prompts the plant field to advocate rising lettuce, identified for its sleep-enhancing properties.

Daedong’s AI Plant Field / Captured from Daedong’s web site

One other Korean midsize firm acknowledged for its know-how is Ceragem, a maker of well being care home equipment.

Throughout CES 2025, LG Electronics’ Head of Dwelling Home equipment and Air Options, Lyu Jae-cheol, visited Ceragem’s sales space and later talked about in a press convention that he was „searching for a collaboration alternative with Ceragem relating to healthcare options.“

“Since Ceragem’s sensible mattress seems to be associated to a sleep high quality resolution that we’re presently engaged on, myself and the Ceragem CEO mentioned our shared pursuits,” Lyu stated through the press convention on Thursday.

Ceragem showcased a variety of well being care home equipment, together with therapeutic massage chairs and therapeutic beds, that includes glossy, trendy designs that resembled fashionable residence furnishings relatively than typical well being care tools.

An official at Ceragem’s sales space stated the corporate is blissful to listen to about LG’s pursuits, however no tangible talks are occurring.

Ceragem’s showroom at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, titled „My Future Dwelling,“ exhibits a front room with residence healthcare gadgets, Tuesday (native time). Courtesy of Ceragem