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Dealers
Sunstate to rent out autonomous construction equipment in deal with Built Robotics
Built Robotics and Sunstate Equipment Company have announced a partnership that marks a major step into the future for both companies. The agreement aims to make Phoenix-based Sunstate the first rental firm to offer fully autonomous construction equipment powered by Built’s proprietary technology and aftermarket kit. For Built, the San Francisco-based startup now beginning to […]
May 14, 2019
Autonomous
Built Robotics brings full autonomy to dozers, excavators with aftermarket kit
After unveiling a fully autonomous compact track loader in 2017 and proving that the machine could work on jobsites, earthmoving contractors started to reach out to Built Robotics with interest of how the company’s technology could make their lives easier. Built founder and CEO Noah Ready-Campbell says the interest came as a natural point of […]
May 10, 2019
Dealers
AED: Equipment dealers need to prepare for transition to service-based business model, develop equipment technician of the future
Executive director of CAVCOE says a dealer’s business model will change as equipment changes and as both manufacturers/customers move towards the service model.
February 7, 2019
Battery electric
Volvo, Skanska to test electric, autonomous site quarry for 10 weeks this fall
Come fall, Volvo will see its electric site quarry come to life thanks to the help of Skanska Sweden. Watch Volvo's RC model demonstration on Equipment World.
May 22, 2018
Autonomous
Autonomous Track Loader performs low-level excavation, grading tasks to boost jobsite productivity
Noah Ready-Campbell built his career in Silicon Valley. But his latest endeavor, a robotics company focused on autonomous construction equipment, represents a return to his roots and the hope that he can blaze a trail forward for the industry. Before he started his career with a job a Google, and before he sold a $23-million […]
December 19, 2017
Construction Equipment
Cat’s fleet of autonomous mine trucks is about to get a lot bigger
The number of mining trucks driving themselves on Caterpillar’s autonomous Command system will soon more than triple through the expansion of a deal with one of the world’s largest iron ore producers. Cat announced today that Australia’s Fortescue Metals Group has ordered 100 mining trucks be retrofitted with the autonomous mine truck platform at its Chichester Hub […]
September 25, 2017
Vocational
How Cat is using the 793F haul truck to bring automation to more machines
Caterpillar first started internal discussions on autonomous trucks back in 1996, says Jim Hawkins, director of the company’s mining technology enabled solutions, “but really we didn’t start in earnest until 2012. We really wanted to focus on how to make an autonomous truck outperform a truck with an operator.” Company executives, including Hawkins and Cat group […]
September 27, 2016
Technology
The future has arrived: 5D Robotics has developed autonomous heavy equipment tech for United Rentals with a distinct human element
It’s happening again. A technology that got a lukewarm reception in the consumer markets is in the first stages of creating a revolution the heavy equipment sector. The first time this happened it was the Internet of Things (IoT). Four years ago, when told IoT technology could enable consumers to adjust their home thermostat from […]
December 23, 2015
Technology
Freightliner unveils first self-driving truck that will roam U.S. highways legally (PHOTOS)
Freightliner did it. If you’re one of the many who scoffed at the idea of a commercially-viable self-driving truck, or at best figured such technology was years—if not decades—away, you need to reset your expectations. At a press event today at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway outside Las Vegas, NV, Freightliner, in conjunction with the […]
May 5, 2015
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