Proven across operations in unstructured, rugged environments on Monarch's own commercial software-defined vehicles (SDV), the MonarchOne platform empowers OEMs to reduce complexity and cost, increase speed to market, and deliver AI-powered scalable autonomy.
Livermore, California — August 25, 2025 — Since its founding, Monarch’s vision has been to automate, digitalize, and decarbonize machines for the rugged industries that underpin society’s infrastructure and food supply. This audacious idea has been materializing through hard work, dedication, and tenacity to solving real-world problems in fields, barns, and work sites. Monarch hit a major milestone in 2022 with the release of the MK-V, the world’s only 100% electric, autonomous-enabled, smart tractor. And now, with the launch of MonarchOne, Monarch is reaching another significant landmark in its ambitious journey. It’s a proud and exciting time for the Monarch community.
MonarchOne is an end-to-end, full-stack, AI-driven platform integrating autonomy, assisted driving, energy management, and data intelligence. It’s the same technology powering the MK-V. Today, MonarchOne is commercially deployed to help off-highway OEMs accelerate development, reduce complexity, and bring smarter machines to market, faster.
Advancing Autonomy Where It’s Need Most
Urban mobility has been the recipient of a surge of autonomous innovations. Meanwhile, off-highway sectors with their critical roles in agriculture, construction, solar, and mining have lagged. Like farming, these industries face intensifying labor shortages, cost pressures, and safety demands. The need to digitize and automate is urgent and undeniable.
Monarch has been at the forefront of this movement in agriculture and continues to advance its technology to benefit producers and support its customer partners. Now, with the MonarchOne platform, Monarch is partnering with OEMs to co-develop, deploy, and scale the next generations of smart, electric, and automated machines in gritty, unstructured environments.
MonarchOne is about democratizing AI for the hard-working industries that keep the world functioning; those known for dull, dirty, and dangerous tasks. These industries are facing similar challenges on a global scale, and access to AI and autonomy offer solutions. For the first time, OEMs can accelerate their development and unlock scalable autonomy through applications like Autodrive and Row Follow, intelligence, and energy efficiency across every class of off-highway vehicles and equipment.
Praveen Penmetsa, CEO, Monarch
Manufacturers can adopt MonarchOne as a full-stack solution or select specific capabilities to align with their product roadmaps. This flexibility bridges the off-highway tech gap with a platform that is versatile and scalable across operations, crop types, regions, equipment, and industries. The platform continuously learns from operational, environmental, and machine-level data, optimizing performance and fueling ongoing innovation that benefits all stakeholders from manufacturers to customers to consumers.
Proven Across Continents, Industries & Conditions
MonarchOne and the MK-V share the same storyline: one of expansion, development, and improvement through robust, continuous deployment. As a result, MonarchOne has established a deep data lake built with over seven years and 100,000+ commercial hours of operating in the muddy, unstructured, dynamic (MUD) environments that define the off-highway space.
Monarch has amassed vast device, environment, and operations data in work environments, and it marks our evolution from smart tractors to the software platform powering the future of off-highway automation through physical AI.
Praveen Penmetsa, CEO, Monarch
MonarchOne Powers the MK-V
MonarchOne enables OEMs to fast-track innovation, reduce research and development risk, and deliver distinct smart and connected products to the market. Specific capabilities, be it full autonomy, driver assist (e.g., Row Follow on the MK-V), or electrification, are supported by MonarchOne platform. A full-stack solution brings digitization, automation, and decarbonization to machinery, just like it has for the MK-V.
Enabling Farmers and OEMS
Monarch Tractor remains dedicated to farmers and working towards a better farming future. Its service and support teams remain fully operational and committed to delivering the care customers expect and deserve. Farmers have and will continue to benefit from improved efficiency and money-saving gains afforded to them through electrification, digitization, and automation on a compact tractor. By commercializing MonarchOne, Monarch is enabling OEMs to bring these features to market-ready machinery faster, making the associated advantages available to their customers.
Monarch is actively partnering with industry OEM partners, including Ag Growth International (AGI), a leader in global food supply chain solutions, to accelerate development and deployment of smart, connected, equipment. In addition to powering the MK-Vs deployed across hundreds of farms, MonarchOne will be on display at the AGI booth during the Farm Progress Show, Aug. 26-28, in Decatur, Illinois.
FAQs
Q: How does MonarchOne differ from Monarch Tractor’s MK-V?
Monarch Tractor’s MK-V is the first commercial vehicle powered by the MonarchOne platform. The MK-V integrates electrification, autonomy, and operational intelligence through components like the smart roof, sensors, cameras, and embedded systems. MonarchOne is the underlying software platform that enables these capabilities and is designed to support a wide range of off-highway vehicles and equipment for OEMs.
Q: Does Monarch still sell and support the MK-V tractor?
Yes. Monarch continues to sell and support the MK-V through Monarch Tractor. Our service and support teams are fully operational and committed to delivering the care our customers, current and new, expect.
Q: Is there a difference between Monarch and Monarch Tractor?
Monarch is a technology company focused on enabling intelligent off-highway systems. The company launched with the MK-V by Monarch Tractor, which has been commercially deployed across four continents and continues to operate in real-world environments. MonarchOne is Monarch’s software-defined and AI-powered platform that enables autonomy, assisted driving, energy management, operational management, and data-driven intelligence for off-highway vehicles and equipment manufacturers. These manufacturing partnerships will introduce more Monarch-enabled products into the market.
