Autonomous Solutions Inc., or ASI, and SoftBank Group Corp. last week announced a joint venture to commercialize brand-agnostic autonomous heavy equipment to address severe labor shortages and accelerate infrastructure projects worldwide. “Large infrastructure projects, from roadways and airports to railways and waste management, are being built at a pace and complexity that traditional labor-intensive methods struggle to match,” Mel Torrie, CEO of ASI, told The Robot Report. “Skilled equipment operators are hard to find, and coordinating mixed fleets across a big jobsite is a real bottleneck. That’s exactly the problem this joint venture is built to solve — bringing autonomous, OEM-agnostic fleet coordination to that kind of scale.” Founded in 2000, ASI has developed the Mobius industrial autonomous fleet orchestration…
Source: The Robot Report