Automated Guided Vehicles have been scurrying around plants in one form or another for decades already. But none of them have ever been quite like these. John Deere?s fleet will mark the latest deployment of OTTO 1500 - a fully self-driving, autonomous robotic vehicle built by Clearpath Robotics. The machines are capable of transporting up to 3,000 lb of goods through congested plant and warehouse environments without the need for drivers, supervision, or guidance infrastructure. That last detail is what makes this technology exciting. OTTO taps into the same sensor-driven, high-computing backbone of Google?s self-driving car to safely and efficiently transport supplies along the same plant and warehouse paths populated by workers and equipment.