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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."

2 of 142 comments (clear)

  1. Re:new video of "The Harvester" Terminator by supernova_hq · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ok, linking to a page with flash is bad. But linking to a flash file itself?!?

  2. Re:Heaviest at a mere 700T? by Dan541 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    4 Minutes is a long wait.

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    An SQL query goes to a bar, walks up to a table and asks, "Mind if I join you?"