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Liebherr Brings Electrified Quarrying and Heavy Machinery to steinexpo
Liebherr Brings Electrified Quarrying and Heavy Machinery to steinexpo A 130-tonne electric mining excavator connected directly to the grid will sit alongside a 564 kWh mobile battery system when Liebherr arrives at steinexpo in September. Around them will be more familiar quarry machinery: a 30-ton...
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How Drive-by-Wire Is Reshaping Autonomous Machine Architecture
How Drive-by-Wire Is Reshaping Autonomous Machine Architecture The international rulebook for fully automated vehicles acquired considerably more substance in June 2026 when the UNECE World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations adopted the first global framework covering Automated Driving S...
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Volvo EC400 Hybrid Cuts Fuel Use by 30% at Clariant Bentonite Mines
Volvo EC400 Hybrid Excavator Cuts Fuel Use by 30% at Clariant Bentonite Mines At Clariant’s bentonite pits in Lower Bavaria, a Volvo EC400 Hybrid excavator has reduced fuel consumption by around 30% against the EC380E it replaced. The saving comes from the repeated stripping of overburden that...
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The $1.5 Billion Race to Build the Operating System for Autonomous Machines
The $1.5 Billion Race to Build the Operating System for Autonomous Machines A construction company is about to become an AI robotics company. On the surface, that sounds like one of the stranger corporate combinations to emerge from the current rush into artificial intelligence, but the mechanics of...
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ASTM Proposed Asphalt Cracking Standard Strengthens Balanced Mix Design
ASTM Proposed Asphalt Cracking Standard Strengthens Balanced Mix Design ASTM International’s road and paving materials committee, D04, is developing a proposed test method for evaluating load-induced cracking in asphalt mixtures at intermediate temperatures. Catalogued as WK89666 and based aro...
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Turning Drone Inspections into a Long-Term Memory for Bridges
Turning Drone Inspections into a Long-Term Memory for Bridges Bridge inspection has always produced a great deal of data and very little memory. Every routine survey captures cracks, spalling and water leakage in fine detail, yet each inspection has tended to stand alone, a snapshot taken from whate...
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Nextpower Pushes Solar Integration Deeper into the Power Plant with NX PowerMerge
Nextpower Pushes Solar Integration Deeper into the Power Plant with NX PowerMerge A single patent on a direct current connector rarely shifts an industry, yet United States patent 12,712,292 tells a pointed story about where margin and defensibility are collecting in utility-scale solar. The grant c...
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Esri’s World Imagery Expansion Brings Infrastructure into Sharper Focus
Esri’s World Imagery Expansion Brings Infrastructure into Sharper Focus Esri’s decision to add Airbus 30 cm satellite imagery across roughly 2,000 cities, announced at the 2026 Esri User Conference alongside expanded contributions from Vantor and Nearmap, reads on the surface as a routin...
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What to Look for When Replacing Old Access Covers
What to Look for When Replacing Old Access Covers Replacing worn or outdated infrastructure rarely feels urgent until something actually breaks.Β Cracked lids or corroded frames are more than just eyesores, as they quickly evolve into genuine safety hazards. When you begin sourcing new access covers...
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Hyundai and Shell Pivot to E-Fluids and Thermal Management
Hyundai and Shell Pivot to E-Fluids and Thermal Management On the surface, Hyundai Motor Company’s decision to extend its global cooperation agreement with Shell Lubricants through 2031 reads like the routine renewal of a supplier relationship that has run since 2005. The substance underneath...
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First USA Built Volvo Excavators Signal a Shift Towards Regional Manufacturing
First USA Built Volvo Excavators Signal a Shift Towards Regional Manufacturing The first excavators and large wheel loaders assembled on American soil by Volvo Construction Equipment have begun reaching customers from the company’s plant in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, and the milestone carries...
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Bentleyβs YII 2026 Finalists Reveal the Next Stage of Digital Infrastructure
Bentleyβs YII 2026 Finalists Reveal the Next Stage of Digital Infrastructure A shortlist is rarely read as a market indicator, yet the field Bentley Systems has just named for its 2026 Year in Infrastructure Awards works better as economic evidence than as a ceremony programme. Of the 36 finalist pr...
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The Common Digital Language Becoming Infrastructure for Global Trade
The Common Digital Language Becoming Infrastructure for Global Trade Internatinoal trade is quietly acquiring a new layer of infrastructure, and it is built less from concrete and steel than from definitions, identifiers, data models and the interfaces that let one organisation’s systems under...
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Japanβs Road Safety Push is Becoming an Infrastructure Strategy
Japanβs Road Safety Push is Becoming an Infrastructure Strategy Japan’s latest effort to drive road deaths towards zero is beginning to reveal a much larger change in how transport safety is being approached. The important development emerging from the 2026 Tateshina Meeting is not another gen...
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6 Window Upgrades Every Van Owner Should Install
6 Window Upgrades Every Van Owner Should Install When upgrading a van, windows can sometimes be overlooked as many owners tend to focus more on performance or exterior appearance. While those areas are important, windows also play a key role in vehicle comfort and functionality. The right upgrades c...
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The Maintenance Layer Becomes the Battleground in Fleet Software
The Maintenance Layer Becomes the Battleground in Fleet Software Motive has launched Motive Maintenance, an AI-powered system that pulls vehicle and asset health, repair workflows and maintenance spend into a single view inside its existing platform. Presented as a way to trace a problem from a faul...
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Dual-Power Equipment the Practical Route for Landscape Electrification
Dual-Power Equipment the Practical Route for Landscape Electrification The professional landscaping sector has spent the better part of a decade being told it faces a binary choice between the petrol engines it trusts and the battery power that regulators increasingly demand. ELIET’s decision...
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DEVELON Expands Compact Equipment Strategy with DEF-Free Track Loaders
DEVELON Expands Compact Equipment Strategy with DEF-Free Track Loaders DEVELON’s decision to build two compact track loaders that need no diesel exhaust fluid reads, at first glance, like a modest maintenance convenience. Seen against the shape of the North American compact equipment market, i...
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Where Do Electrical Equipment and Civil Construction Meet on Major Projects?
Where Do Electrical Equipment and Civil Construction Meet on Major Projects? Large infrastructure projects depend on many disciplines moving toward the same goal. Civil teams plan roads, foundations, drainage, and site access, while electrical teams focus on the systems that will support the finishe...
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SPH Drone Camp Brings the Full Survey Workflow into the Field
SPH Drone Camp Brings the Full Survey Workflow into the Field The most expensive thing on any construction site is often the thing nobody can see. Buried cables, forgotten pipework, unexploded ordnance, voids, contaminated fill and uncharted ground conditions sit quietly beneath the surface until an...
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Perception Moves to the Machine as Edge AI Reshapes Off-Highway Autonomy
Perception Moves to the Machine as Edge AI Reshapes Off-Highway Autonomy The most consequential shift in artificial intelligence is no longer happening in the data centre. It is happening on the machine itself, where cameras, sensors and inference chips are being asked to see, interpret and act in r...
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The Real Bottleneck in Physical AI andΒ Robotics is Data
The Real Bottleneck in Physical AI andΒ Robotics is Data The robotics industry has spent the past two years discovering that its hardest problem is no longer the robot. Compute is abundant, actuators are capable, and vision-language-action models can turn a set of demonstrations into a working manipu...
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What Makes a Semi Truck Crash Catastrophic
What Makes a Semi Truck Crash Catastrophic Emergency crews respond to a semi-truck incident on a freight corridor, where severity gets measured in closures as well as injuries. A collision involving a fully loaded semi truck is rarely a scaled-up version of a passenger car crash. When the impact lea...
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From Belgrade to Chicago: Spotter AI Targets the Networks Behind US Freight
From Belgrade to Chicago: Spotter AI Targets the Networks Behind US Freight A single billboard at an airport rarely counts as industry news, yet the placement Spotter AI has chosen for its first outdoor campaign says more about where value is concentrating in American road freight than most product...
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The Connected Jobsite Finds its Voice with PoC, Satellite and 5G On Site
The Connected Jobsite Finds its Voice with PoC, Satellite and 5G On Site For most of its working life the professional two-way radio has been sold as a piece of hardware defined by a single number: range. That number dictated everything downstream, from how many repeaters a contractor rented to how...
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Streamlining Europe to Canada Shipping: Customs, Transport and Logistics Solutions
Streamlining Europe to Canada Shipping: Customs, Transport and Logistics Solutions Ever felt overwhelmed with the thought of exporting to Europe and Canada? International shipping requirements are complex and varied. It is necessary to coordinate all the steps of the flow of goods between internatio...
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Building the Invisible Jobsite
Building the Invisible Jobsite How the Connective Tissue Between Systems Became Construction’s Real Advantage Picture a well-run construction project five years from now. A tower crane swings above a rising frame, an excavator trims a foundation, deliveries queue at the gate and crews move bet...
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Tower Cranes Take Construction Engineering into Amazon Climate Science
Tower Cranes Take Construction Engineering into Amazon Climate Science The deployment of four Liebherr 85 EC-B tower cranes at the AmazonFACE research site near Manaus reads, at first glance, as a curiosity: construction plant repurposed for science, a photogenic footnote to a climate story. The mor...
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Quipli’s Growth Signals a Digital Shift in Equipment Rental
Quipli’s Growth Signals a Digital Shift in Equipment Rental The equipment rental sector rarely treats a software vendor’s growth ranking as market news, yet Quipli’s placement at No. 419 on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list is worth pausing on for reasons that have little to do with the acco...
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Real-Time Concrete Data is Rewriting the Economics of the Pour
Real-Time Concrete Data is Rewriting the Economics of the Pour The most expensive risk in concrete construction is rarely the one that makes headlines. Blow-outs, hidden voids and structural defects are real, yet they remain comparatively uncommon on well-run sites. The cost that quietly accumulates...
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Trimble Closes the Distance Between the 3D Model and the Machine
Trimble Closes the Distance Between the 3D Model and the Machine The launch of Trimble SketchUp Pro Civil Contractor looks, on the surface, like a new edition of a familiar modelling package aimed at a fresh audience. The more consequential story sits underneath the product name. Trimble has taken o...
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How Haul Road Data is Changing the Economics of Earthmoving
How Haul Road Data is Changing the Economics of Earthmoving For most of the history of earthmoving, the haul road has been treated as something between the machines and the money: necessary, obvious and largely ignored until it failed. Operators graded it when it became visibly bad, and otherwise le...
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Understanding Louisiana’s Minimum Auto Insurance Requirements
Understanding Louisiana’s Minimum Auto Insurance Requirements If you just registered a car in Shreveport, or you’re renewing a policy and wondering whether you can trim it down, you’ve probably run into the number 15/30/25. It looks like a code, and in a way it is. Knowing what it...
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Vermeer and Interlune to Industrialise the Lunar Construction Supply Chain
Vermeer and Interlune to Industrialise the Lunar Construction Supply Chain The most revealing thing about the expanded partnership between Interlune and Vermeer is not that a lunar excavator exists. It is that a mainstream industrial-equipment manufacturer, with nearly eight decades of terrestrial e...
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LANDCROS Signals Hitachiβs Shift from Construction to Construction Intelligence
LANDCROS Signals Hitachiβs Shift from Machinery to Construction Intelligence Hitachi Construction Machinery has opened its LANDCROS Innovation Studios Challenge to Europe for the first time, inviting startups to submit ready-to-test solutions between 31 July and 30 September 2026 and pitch to the co...
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Britainβs Road Safety Challenge is Shifting from Counting Collisions to Understanding Risk
Britainβs Road Safety Challenge is Shifting from Counting Collisions to Understanding Risk The Department for Transport’s final reported road casualty statistics for Great Britain in 2025, published on 30 July 2026, arrive as the first complete annual measurement against the most consequential...
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Skyjackβs ELEVATE and the Race to Own the Connected Rental Machine
Skyjackβs ELEVATE and the Race to Own the Connected Rental Machine Skyjackβs latest push around its ELEVATE telematics suite, its operator-facing ELEVATE Live tool and a widening line of ACCESSORYZER safety attachments looks, at first glance, like routine product housekeeping from a well-regarded ac...
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Bobcat Wins Three CMME Awards Signalling a Broader Play for Gulf Worksites
Bobcat Wins Three CMME Awards Signalling a Broader Play for Gulf Worksites Bobcat left the 2026 Construction Machinery Middle East (CMME) Awards in Dubai with three trophies, and on the surface that reads as a straightforward night of industry recognition. The more instructive story sits in the shap...
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The Mid-Sized Excavator is Being Re-Specified as a Multi-Tool Platform
The Mid-Sized Excavator is Being Re-Specified as a Multi-Tool Platform A North Yorkshire groundworks contractor quietly re-equipping one excavator is not, on its own, a market event. When J Lingard Site Services fitted a Rototilt RC5 tiltrotator to a new 16-tonne Volvo EC160E, complete with Leica ma...
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Cannes Festival Signals a Shift From Quantum Science to Quantum Industry
Cannes Festival Signals a Shift From Quantum Science to Quantum Industry The inaugural World Quantum Cannes Festival, staged at the Palais des Festivals on 17 and 18 November 2026, is being positioned as something more deliberate than another physics gathering on the Croisette. Its organisers descri...
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IBEW 2026 and CORENET X Put Singapore at the Forefront of Digital Construction
IBEW 2026 and CORENET X Put Singapore at the Forefront of Digital Construction When the built environment sector gathers in Singapore from 2 to 4 September 2026 for International Built Environment Week, the temptation will be to read the programme as another well-staged conversation about artificial...
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Quarterhill’s Conduent Deal Redraws the US Tolling Map
Quarterhill’s Conduent Deal Redraws the US Tolling Map A Canadian company that spent the better part of a decade reinventing itself from a patent-licensing shell into a focused roads-technology operator is now attempting the hardest part of any turnaround, which is turning recovered profitabil...
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Ferrovialβs Nasdaq Rise Signals a New Centre of Gravity for Infrastructure Investment
Ferrovialβs Nasdaq Rise Signals a New Centre of Gravity for Infrastructure Investment Ferrovial’s decision to remove its ordinary shares from Euronext Amsterdam in September 2026 reads, on the surface, as a piece of housekeeping. The Dutch venue now handles just 0.15% of the company’s av...
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Construction Waste is Becoming a New Revenue Stream for Contractors in UK
Construction Waste is Becoming a New Revenue Stream for Contractors in UK The headline event is modest on paper, in that a UK civil engineering contractor in Blackpool has commissioned a wash plant. The significance sits underneath it. When JN Civils switched on a 150-tonnes-an-hour construction, de...
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The New Ceiling for Physical AI is Certification, Not Capability
The New Ceiling for Physical AI is Certification, Not Capability A review paper that appeared in Machine Intelligence ResearchΒ reads, on the surface, like a technical audit of how vision-language models can be fooled. Its commercial significance is larger than its subject matter suggests, because it...
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Georgia can turn the Middle Corridor into an Industrial Economy
Georgia can turn the Middle Corridor into an Industrial Economy Georgia has spent three years being courted as a transit country, and in one narrow sense the pitch has worked. Freight is moving, the ports are busier and the multilateral money is arriving. A new argument set out on the Asian D...
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Membrane Refining Crosses from Chemistry into Engineering
Membrane Refining Crosses from Chemistry into Engineering A cluster of research results published in the first half of 2026 has quietly moved membrane-based crude oil separation out of the materials-science laboratory and towards the refinery fence line. For most of the past decade the idea of separ...
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From Laboratory Alloy to Working Engine in Just Four Years
From Laboratory Alloy to Working Engine in Just Four Years When Oak Ridge National Laboratory and General Motors confirmed that a pair of advanced aluminium alloys had cleared the strength and durability thresholds of a new medium-duty truck engine, most of the coverage settled on the headline numbe...
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Autonomous Satellites Could Change how the World Responds to Wildfires
Autonomous Satellites Could Change how the World Responds to Wildfires Wildfire detection has spent decades as a by-product of general Earth observation, something inferred from weather satellites and land-imaging missions that happened to catch a thermal anomaly on their way past. That arrangement...
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Mobileye Moves From Selling Autonomy to Owning the Robotaxi Economics
Mobileye Moves From Selling Autonomy to Owning the Robotaxi Economics For more than two decades Mobileye has made its money selling the intelligence that other people’s vehicles drive on. Its chips, cameras and software sit behind the windscreens of more than 230 million cars, and its Mobileye...
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America’s Mine Waste Could Become its Next Critical Minerals Resource
America’s Mine Waste Could Become its Next Critical Minerals Resource The most commercially interesting shift in critical minerals is not taking place at the bottom of a new pit. It is happening on top of the waste that more than a century of mining has already produced, crushed and concentrat...
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Standby Power Moves to the Centre of the AI Data Centre Buildout
Standby Power Moves to the Centre of the AI Data Centre Buildout The tightest constraint on the artificial intelligence buildout has quietly shifted from processors to power, and specifically to the physical equipment that delivers and secures it. Developers can place orders for accelerators faster...
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The Quantum Computing Race Is Shifting From Qubits To Infrastructure
The Quantum Computing Race Is Shifting From Qubits To Infrastructure For most of its commercial history, quantum computing has been sold as a promise about the future. The new evidence points somewhere more familiar to anyone who buys industrial capacity for a living. Quantum is starting to behave l...
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Fusion is Building the Industrial Infrastructure Behind the Power Plant
Fusion is Building the Industrial Infrastructure Behind the Power Plant The most significant thing about Kyoto Fusioneering’s decision to build UNITY-3 at Oak Ridge is not that another fusion research facility is going up in East Tennessee. It is that fusion has started to assemble the shared...
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Infrastructure That Can Sail Away: The Logic Behind the VITAL Kraaken
Infrastructure That Can Sail Away: The Logic Behind the VITAL Kraaken Optimal Transit, the maritime engineering partnership of InMar Technologies and OptiFuel Systems, has unveiled a second configuration of its Kraaken platform, and the more revealing way to read it has little to do with floating co...
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Beyond Curb Appeal: The 2026 Guide to Upgrading Your Homeβs Exterior
Beyond Curb Appeal: The 2026 Guide to Upgrading Your Homeβs Exterior When it comes to home renovations, interior projects like kitchen remodels and bathroom upgrades often steal the spotlight and dominate the budget. However, as building science rapidly evolves and extreme weather events become more...
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The Autonomous Construction Company
The Autonomous Construction Company The familiar vision of construction autonomy is a physical one. An autonomous excavator works a site while drones survey progress overhead and robotic equipment handles the repetitive tasks that once tied up operators for entire shifts. It is an arresting image, a...
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Construction 3D Printing Moving to Everyday Business in Germany
Construction 3D Printing Moving to Everyday Business in Germany The headline from Selsingen is not that a German contractor has printed a building. Concrete printing has been printing buildings in Germany since Beckum in 2020, and the novelty of a two-storey office shell has worn thin. What matters...
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Edge Detection and the Shift From Paving Craft to Sensor-Guided Control
Edge Detection and the Shift From Paving Craft to Sensor-Guided Control A single laser sensor bolted to the side plate of a paving screed does not, on the face of it, sound like a strategic development. Yet the quiet arrival of automated screed width control on Germany’s B535 federal road poin...
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Liebherr Turns Excavator Durability Testing Into an Autonomy Proving Ground
Liebherr Turns Excavator Durability Testing Into an Autonomy Proving Ground On paper, the new test rig that Liebherr France SAS commissioned at Colmar in early 2026 is a durability tool. It costs close to EUR 2.5 million, sits inside an enclosed hall, and exists to punish crawler excavator structure...
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