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Joe Creed

Joe Creed

Chief Executive Officer, Caterpillar

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Autonomous machines move from mines to construction sites

New Capabilities

Leading Caterpillar's autonomy and AI strategy

For more than three decades, giant autonomous trucks have hauled billions of tonnes of rock out of mines with no one behind the wheel. Now Caterpillar, the world's largest construction equipment manufacturer, is moving that technology to ordinary job sites. At CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2026 in Las Vegas, the company ran a 26,000-pound CS12 soil compactor through live compaction passes with an empty cabβ€”the first time a major equipment maker has demonstrated this level of autonomous operation on a construction machine in a public setting.

Updated Mar 2