Piloting a fighter jet, removing a brain tumor, programing a particle accelerator, and operting a hydraulic excavator all require a high level of skill. Quick thinking, eye-hand coordination, and ...

Although global positioning system (GPS) technology has been around since the mid-90s, it's really taken off in the construction industry during the last few years. One reason for that, says Fred ...

Komatsu America Corp. has launched the PC210LCi-11 intelligent machine control hydraulic excavator. This second-generation PC210LCi leverages the proven track record and success of the pioneering ...

Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon, and Doosan, a global industry leader in the engineering, manufacturing and marketing of compact and heavy construction equipment, announced the release of a ...

Scott Hagemann, Caterpillar application specialist for machine control and guidance, believes contractors should no more use excavators without GPS grade control on a site where dozers or graders are ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 2, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Trimble (NASDAQ:TRMB) and Kobelco announced today that Kobelco will offer the Trimble ® Earthworks Grade Control Platform for Excavators as a ...

Volvo Construction Equipment has launched Volvo Active Control, an automated grading machine control system for its EC220E, EC250E and EC300E crawler excavators. The system allows operators to get the ...

Guidance and precision control, the base elements of modern machine control for construction, have continued to evolve since broad productization began in the mid-1990s. However, the value proposition ...

Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon, today announced the launch of the new Leica iCON site excavator, a machine-control solution that enables compact excavators to carry out designs easily and ...

LIVERMORE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Topcon Positioning Group announces a new option for Caterpillar Next Gen excavator users to leverage Topcon 3D machine control functionality together with Cat ...