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The World's Heaviest Robot

Posted by timothy on from the or-at-least-r/c-truck dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "This distinction goes to a future autonomous version of the 700-tons Caterpillar mining truck. In this article, Discovery News reports that Caterpillar engineers and computer scientists from Carnegie Mellon University have teamed up to develop this autonomous truck. Japan-based Komatsu has already delivered autonomous mining trucks to its customers, but these are smaller than the Caterpillar ones. Both companies are transforming their trucks into 'robots' for three reasons. Improvements in safety, efficiency and productivity will reduce costs and increase availability."

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  1. All I Have to Say Is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You'll be hearing from Shampoo's lawyers.

  2. Quick, tag this 'whatcouldpossiblygowrong' by MrHanky · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not that I think there's a huge chance that things will go wrong with, but think of how awesomely cool it would go wrong if it did.

    1. Re:Quick, tag this 'whatcouldpossiblygowrong' by Smauler · · Score: 4, Funny

      I don't consider 2 million pounds moving at 42 mph "incredibly slow"

      You've obviously never waited in a queue at McDonalds then...

  3. Transformers by Tubal-Cain · · Score: 3, Funny

    Which Autobot was a dumptruck?

  4. He's not heavy... by eln · · Score: 4, Funny

    he's my brobot.

    Sorry.