All Machine automation & autonomy Articles

Caterpillar updates hydraulic excavators for 2025
Caterpillar has released its 2025 Annual Product Update (APU) for the complete Cat hydraulic excavator series
Hexagon unveils new software-as-a-service spin-off business
Hexagon is spinning off a new company by combining its own divisions
5 construction tech start-ups land $100m for automation, AI and prefab
 Investors back new tech to cut labour, speed up builds, and reduce costs
Hitachi executive: ‘We need tech to help average operators run our machines’
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As construction faces pressure to decarbonise, digitalise and do more with less, Hitachi’s president sets out a vision in which smart machines and human expertise evolve together
Autonomous scanning robot targets jobsite scanning and safety
Big contractors with BIM teams is the target market for autonomous robot inventors
Remote-controlled Caterpillar excavator clears potential explosives
A remote-controlled Cat 325 excavator is helping clear potential unexploded ordnance at Raufoss Industrial Park in Norway
Oshkosh highlights industrial technology strategy at Investor Day
JLG leads construction-sector innovations for Oshkosh Corporation’s 2025 Investor Day
Implenia wins US$229 million contract to build German S-Bahn tunnel
Implenia wins contract to build complex underground tunnel section
Hitachi CE partners with university to study mining equipment maintenance
A regional subsidiary of Hitachi Construction Equipment is leading a study with a Netherlands university
ABB to acquire BrightLoop
Acquisition to strengthen ABB’s position in off-highway vehicle, marine vessel electrification.
Inside the construction of Miami’s US$600 million high-rise
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A closer look at the Cipriani Residences high-rise project in Miami, Florida, US
US contractors, trade group push for stronger work zone safety laws
US contractors and one trade group are working together on reducing highway construction crashes
Construction goes to Washington – Industry showcase at US Capitol
Industry showcases innovation, unity, and policy priorities on the National Mall in Washington D.C.
What Caterpillar’s sustainability report reveals about construction’s carbon challenge
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The world’s largest OEM by sales releases its 2024 Sustainability Report; what’s inside?
NASA tests 3D printing with artificial Moon soil for lunar construction
US-based NASA is testing construction technology on Earth for use in outer space
New excavator simulators to debut at PlantWorx 2025
The new Excavator Simulator is currently in development
Komatsu makes Smart Construction Remote standard
Also announces lidar supply agreement for autonomous mining equipment
Caterpillar adds collision warning, payload options to medium wheeled loaders
World’s largest OEM releases collision warning, payload options for wheeled loaders
Holcim UK trials AI-powered autonomous technology
The strategic partnership aims to develop the commercialisation of autonomous technology
How machine automation is gradually moving to autonomy
AI improvements bring incremental advances now and big changes over time, writes Tom Jackson
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