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CNH Raven Autonomy (Case IH / New Holland) vs MK-V in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
Key differences
On DEPLOY's record, MK-V has more verified real-world deployments (4 versus 1) than CNH Raven Autonomy (Case IH / New Holland) as of 2026; DEPLOY counts a deployment only when confirmed at a named site with a primary source.
- MK-V has more capabilities independently verified as autonomous (1 vs 0).
- MK-V has more verified real-world deployments (4 vs 1).
| Attribute | No image on file | No image on file |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | CNH Industrial | Monarch Tractor |
| Form factor | agriculture | agriculture |
| Maturity | commercial | commercial |
| Autonomy | — | ✓ 1 verified autonomous |
| Availability | internal-onlyenterprise | discontinueddiscontinued |
| Price | Not announced | Not announced |
| Capability claims | — |
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| Brain | — | — |
| Verified deployments | 1CNH Industrial | 4 |
| Privacy practices | — | — |
| Sources on file | 8 | 18 |
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CNH Raven Autonomy (Case IH / New Holland)
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Editorial summaries
CNH Raven Autonomy (Case IH / New Holland)
CNH Industrial (NYSE: CNH; brands Case IH and New Holland Agriculture) runs its agricultural-autonomy program through Raven Industries, which it acquired in 2021 for about $2.1 billion. There is no consumer price: it is B2B agricultural autonomy, not a product sold to consumers. DEPLOY catalogs the entity under the CNH parent rather than a single brand because the autonomy IP is owned at the CNH level and deployed identically across Case IH and New Holland.
It is at commercial maturity for its shipping automation and retrofit features: the OMNiPOWER self-propelled platform (2020) and OMNiDRIVE driverless grain-cart retrofit (2021), Raven Cart Automation (commercial from mid-March 2024), the Raven Autonomy Driverless Tillage Solution (2024 model-year), and Sense & Act targeted spraying plus combine, planter, and baler automation. A verified-vs-claimed point: the headline cab-less robot tractor is not shipping: it traces to a 2016 cabless Autonomous Concept Vehicle that was never productized, and the R4 Autonomous Robot Family remains a proof-of-concept as of Agritechnica 2025, with CNH's own November 2025 materials describing broad factory-fit Autonomous Tillage as in development, Passive Implement Guidance launching in 2026, and Green-on-Green spraying in 2027.
Importantly, CNH's autonomy asset is Raven Industries, not Bear Flag Robotics (which belongs to John Deere).
MK-V
Monarch Tractor (founded 2018, Livermore, California; CEO Praveen Penmetsa) built the MK-V, a fully battery-electric, driver-optional smart tractor with a WingspanAI fleet-management and remote-supervision layer. There is no consumer price, and the company is discontinued. The MK-V did reach a genuine historical peak: it shipped to paying commercial customers starting December 2022 (the first being Constellation Brands, which took six tractors for its To Kalon vineyard), and Monarch raised more than $220 million anchored by a $133M Series C in July 2024 (recorded at commercial maturity historically).
But Monarch collapsed through 2025: its Foxconn manufacturing arrangement ended (the Ohio plant was sold to SoftBank in August 2025), with layoffs and a shutdown warning in November 2025, a pivot to roughly 70% licensing revenue, and finally an assignment for the benefit of creditors; its assets and IP (the software-defined vehicle platform and perception stack) were acquired by Caterpillar around April 14, 2026, in an asset-and-technology purchase, not a going-concern acquisition. On autonomy, marketing of a fully autonomous tractor overstated reality: full autonomy was confined to a narrow dairy feed-pushing use case, while general field work was driver-assist with an operator aboard, and an Idaho dealer sued in September 2025 alleging the tractors could not operate autonomously.
It is the wound-down anchor of the agriculture cohort.
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Recent coverage
- Monarch Tractor's collapse ends with acquisition by CaterpillarMK-V · Ben Smith, Deploy Editor · 2026-04-15
- Monarch Tractor shuts down after raising 40MMK-V · Ben Smith, Deploy Editor · 2026-04-08
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