The World's Heaviest Robot

Posted by timothy on Sunday November 9, 2008 @11:21AM 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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Re:Quick, tag this 'whatcouldpossiblygowrong' by Daimanta · 2008-11-09 11:42 · Score: 2, Insightful

"but think of how awesomely cool it would go wrong if it did."
Yeah, I'm thinking about the truck going on a rampage killing multiple people in the vicinity. Awesome.

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Re:All I Have to Say Is by Anonymous Coward · 2008-11-09 11:42 · Score: 1, Insightful

I wished they'd dump the heaviest robot on the submitter of this story.