Aaron Wells Is Driving the Future of Farming - No Hands Required

Aaron Wells didn’t grow up imagining he’d help build autonomous tractors. Raised in a town of just 525 people in Wisconsin, he first found his calling in the Air Force, deploying F-16s across the globe. “I could fix almost anything that breaks on an F-16,” he says. “I lived in Italy, traveled through Africa and the Middle East, it was an amazing ride.”

That ride eventually led him to John Deere, where he now leads engineering at Blue River Technology, focusing on perception systems and software that allow tractors to operate without a driver. “I’m an engineer at heart, a builder by nature,” Aaron says. “What’s been constant is my drive to build things that work in the real world.”

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