At first glance, it looks like the least futuristic place to talk about “autonomy”: a narrow lane between vineyard rows, where the job is repetitive, dusty, and unforgiving of mistakes. But that is precisely the point.
On January 6, at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, Kubota said it will commercialise a factory-integrated autonomous system for its M5 Narrow specialty tractor — a 105.7-horsepower diesel machine aimed at orchards and vineyards — built in partnership with the autonomy software company Agtonomy.
In the same breath, the Japanese equipment maker showed a concept platform robot called KVPR, a “transformer” machine that can expand and contract,
