# Blue River Technology

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/blue-river-technology/  
**Website:** https://www.bluerivertechnology.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Blue River Technology is an agricultural robotics and machine-learning company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and a wholly owned subsidiary of John Deere (Deere & Company), which acquired it in 2017. Founded in 2011 by Jorge Heraud and Lee Redden out of Stanford University, the company builds intelligent machinery that combines computer vision, machine learning, robotics, and full-stack software to make farming more precise and sustainable. Its flagship product, See & Spray, uses onboard cameras and deep-learning models to distinguish crops from weeds in real time and target herbicide only where it is needed, dramatically reducing chemical use. Blue River operates as John Deere's autonomy and computer-vision engineering hub, applying the same perception and edge-AI stack across agriculture, construction, and mining equipment. The company does not publish a public developer API, SDK, or documentation portal; its technology ships embedded in John Deere machinery and is surfaced to growers through John Deere Operations Center rather than a standalone developer program.

## Kin Score — 7.6 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 7.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 2.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 10.5 |
| Access Clarity | 10.5 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Blue River Technology Domain Security** — TLSv1.2

## Tags

Company, Agriculture, Robotics, Computer-Vision, Machine-Learning, Artificial Intelligence, AgTech, Autonomy, Precision Agriculture, North America

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/blue-river-technology/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.