2 months ago
Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) is stepping up its push into AI-powered autonomy as the company looks to help customers build, move and power progress more safely and efficiently. On September 2, it announced a collaboration with FieldAI to advance the development of physical AI, autonomy and robotics.
The partnership could help accelerate Caterpillar's transition beyond the traditional sale of heavy equipment toward AI-enabled autonomous industrial systems. FieldAI is a potentially valuable partner because its AI models are designed to help robots perceive, understand, and navigate complex, unpredictable environments.
Caterpillar could combine FieldAI's technology with its equipment-engineering expertise and operational data to improve autonomous operations in challenging environments. Over time, the collaboration could complement Caterpillar's broader push toward increasingly autonomous equipment and workflows.
The FieldAI partnership could also strengthen Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT)'s autonomous opportunity in construction. Caterpillar already has extensive experience with autonomous mining equipment, but construction presents a potentially much larger and more complex opportunity.
The biggest opportunity could come from deploying autonomous equipment at smaller, dynamic construction sites, where unpredictable environments and changing workflows make automation more difficult.
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The partnership could help accelerate Caterpillar's transition beyond the traditional sale of heavy equipment toward AI-enabled autonomous industrial systems. FieldAI is a potentially valuable partner because its AI models are designed to help robots perceive, understand, and navigate complex, unpredictable environments.
Caterpillar could combine FieldAI's technology with its equipment-engineering expertise and operational data to improve autonomous operations in challenging environments. Over time, the collaboration could complement Caterpillar's broader push toward increasingly autonomous equipment and workflows.
The FieldAI partnership could also strengthen Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT)'s autonomous opportunity in construction. Caterpillar already has extensive experience with autonomous mining equipment, but construction presents a potentially much larger and more complex opportunity.
The biggest opportunity could come from deploying autonomous equipment at smaller, dynamic construction sites, where unpredictable environments and changing workflows make automation more difficult.
#autonomous #fieldai #Opportunity #push
3 months ago
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Robots are gaining steam in the construction industry, with two announcements this week highlighting the demand for these solutions on jobsites.
On Monday, global investment behemoth SoftBank threw its weight behind Gravis Robotics in a $200 million Series A funding round. That same day, Bedrock Robotics, founded by alumni from robotaxi firm Waymo, announced its machines were doing work on real jobsites for established contractors, including Sundt Construction and Zachry Construction.
Those are only the latest developments in the sector. Last year, "robot brain" maker FieldAI raised $405 million across two consecutive funding rounds. And Bedrock's latest jobsite announcement followed its February funding news, where it raised $270 million in a Series B round.
The focus on robots in construction demonstrates not only a desire from legacy investors to pursue automation in the sector, but the need of contractors to find labor — human or otherwise — to complete jobs. As Bedrock CEO Boris Sofman told Construction Dive earlier this week, "We are seeing increasing projects with millions of cubic yards of earth to be moved."
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Robots are gaining steam in the construction industry, with two announcements this week highlighting the demand for these solutions on jobsites.
On Monday, global investment behemoth SoftBank threw its weight behind Gravis Robotics in a $200 million Series A funding round. That same day, Bedrock Robotics, founded by alumni from robotaxi firm Waymo, announced its machines were doing work on real jobsites for established contractors, including Sundt Construction and Zachry Construction.
Those are only the latest developments in the sector. Last year, "robot brain" maker FieldAI raised $405 million across two consecutive funding rounds. And Bedrock's latest jobsite announcement followed its February funding news, where it raised $270 million in a Series B round.
The focus on robots in construction demonstrates not only a desire from legacy investors to pursue automation in the sector, but the need of contractors to find labor — human or otherwise — to complete jobs. As Bedrock CEO Boris Sofman told Construction Dive earlier this week, "We are seeing increasing projects with millions of cubic yards of earth to be moved."
#dive #robotics #robots
3 months ago
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Robots are gaining steam in the construction industry, with two announcements this week highlighting the demand for these solutions on jobsites.
On Monday, global investment behemoth SoftBank threw its weight behind Gravis Robotics in a $200 million Series A funding round. That same day, Bedrock Robotics, founded by alumni from robotaxi firm Waymo, announced its machines were doing work on real jobsites for established contractors, including Sundt Construction and Zachry Construction.
Those are only the latest developments in the sector. Last year, "robot brain" maker FieldAI raised $405 million across two consecutive funding rounds. And Bedrock's latest jobsite announcement followed its February funding news, where it raised $270 million in a Series B round.
The focus on robots in construction demonstrates not only a desire from legacy investors to pursue automation in the sector, but the need of contractors to find labor — human or otherwise — to complete jobs. As Bedrock CEO Boris Sofman told Construction Dive earlier this week, "We are seeing increasing projects with millions of cubic yards of earth to be moved."
#robotics #week
Robots are gaining steam in the construction industry, with two announcements this week highlighting the demand for these solutions on jobsites.
On Monday, global investment behemoth SoftBank threw its weight behind Gravis Robotics in a $200 million Series A funding round. That same day, Bedrock Robotics, founded by alumni from robotaxi firm Waymo, announced its machines were doing work on real jobsites for established contractors, including Sundt Construction and Zachry Construction.
Those are only the latest developments in the sector. Last year, "robot brain" maker FieldAI raised $405 million across two consecutive funding rounds. And Bedrock's latest jobsite announcement followed its February funding news, where it raised $270 million in a Series B round.
The focus on robots in construction demonstrates not only a desire from legacy investors to pursue automation in the sector, but the need of contractors to find labor — human or otherwise — to complete jobs. As Bedrock CEO Boris Sofman told Construction Dive earlier this week, "We are seeing increasing projects with millions of cubic yards of earth to be moved."
#robotics #week
