The Future of Heavy Equipment Operation? Remotely Operating from ANYWHERE!
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2024
- While visiting Westrac Caterpillar, the official Cat dealer in New South Wales, Australia, they let me play with one of their coolest toys - the Cat remote operator station.
The station, comprised of the same seat and controls inside a machine, combined with a sports bar-level TV screens, can operate remote-enabled machines from ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.
Cat first pioneered the technology for dangerous applications, like working near a high wall, unloading barges, and removing nuclear waste.
I've seen the technology a few times before, but this was the first time I was allowed to operate a remote machine, thanks to Westrac's insanely cool technology experience center.
You can learn more about Cat Command and Westrac's technology experience center at the links below!
www.cat.com/en_US/products/ne...
www.westrac.com.au/technology... - Наука та технологія
I think this technology is actually gonna be in alot more places sooner than people think. I used to work for a log yard in a mill and even they were looking into putting it into one of there cat loaders with yhe grapple that feed the mill. 🏴👍
I could imagine this technology coming in handy for fighting oil well fires
"Backhoe Simulator" available now on Steam. 🤣
You think you're playing a sim, but in reality you're doing a job irl. Great way for companies to save some cash!!!
Thanks, Aaron. Very interesting and it makes sense. Thanks for sharing and have a great weekend!!
Take note America. That thing attached to the bottom of the stick is a called a tilt hitch with a quick coupler.
Give it 20 years and you guys might start to see it on your equipment.
uhh what? We already have this on thousands of machines. Tf? You thought some chinese made shit is some how special to you???
There is something about being in command of a machine. Are feeling the machine. 👍
Caterpillar in other country: 💪💪😎😎
Caterpillar in my country: 🗿🗿🗿
Thanks for another great video on an interesting topic. I can see the useage for the safety aspect as you say. At the same time we are talking about corporations that can and absolutely will exploit this technology to reduce their skilled labor force, outsourced and cheaper. I hope not but I know better. Thanks again for all you show us ✌️
Aaron thanks for the videos awesome stuff .😊😊👍👍🚜🚜🚛🚚🚧🚧🚧🚧
Cool to see you at Tomago checking out the yellow stuff, wondering if you made your way up to any of the mines in the valley and / or the Mt Thorley Liebherr branch?
Aaron you are a fine operator and that training computer would be great to get back into it for ME......
Nice haircut Aaron! They do a lot of digging down under don't they!
aaron, i respect your concern for our comments in the last video. I appreciate how you addressed our grievances appropriately demonstrating the very real and important use cases for technology like this when operator safety is compromised. However, you mention at around 8:00 one of CAT’s primary use cases, and it seemed like exactly the kind of thing we mentioned being problematic. I think it would be very interesting if you made a video and dug deeper into how the people on ground use and think of this kind of tech, on top of these impressive demos!
I understand, but I I like the pucker of doing sketchy things with a 55 ton excavator.
No matter why or who criticizes this technology is the way of the future and I can see it that AI will be part of this technology. Can you imagine just delivering a machine and with no operator or human in the area and the machine completely doing the required tast completely. That is the goal eventually and we are getting closer to that reality.
Will there be any more content from Westrac ? been through the place a few times, very big operation
plenty more coming soon
We sent Aaron to both our operations - NSW and Western Australia. He got to see action on both sides of AUS. Plenty to come! ^CG
It is a wonderful technology, I love driving excavators, going to construction sites that are far from home, often in cities with huge traffic jams, is the worst.
Thanks for another well produced video.... there are remote controlled machines operating in mines deep underground. They are used in places unsafe for humans to be near; uranium, coal, and precious metals. It is amazing to see how technology is changing the face of construction. Imagine being able to run 3 shifts 24/7 and not fatiguing human operators. It's like drones that are operated thousands miles away providing intel on a foreign adversary. In time, some of this work can be done by AI. This won't replace humans, but enhance what is already being done... cheers mate.
Don't be so naive, SJR, sadly this technology will eventually replace human operators...
@@DrTubeman well Dr with no content of his own you might want to re-think your premise and back it up with actual data
Damn, this CONSTRUCTION SIMULATOR 2025 has incredible graphics, it almost looks like real ife! 😁😁🤘🤘
You forgot the coolest part which is that the control system appears to be running Ubuntu.
Linux FTW!
Crazy that we can now do work in places we don't even have to be.
So true
Just out of curiosity.... you know the drillers that do the drill holes for blasting in quarries, they have had this remote tech for like 10 years. I guess its easier to stream one camera and all it does is move 2 MPH and pushes down.
yeah drills move a bit slower
A lot of our mines in Aus have full autonomous blast hole drill fleets, no operators at just all just gps and a computer programme.
As it should be! Labor is the highest expense and frustrating issue with any small business especially in the construction industry!
*in the west. The so called "blue collar workers" in the US got used to getting ridiculous money for the jobs that a trained monkey can do (and that's why they are so afraid of immigrants). Yes, there are some highly skilled professionals and craftsmen with unique skills, but most of this jobs are nothing special and cost so much just because people doing them happened to be born in a certain country. On the other hand high cost of blue collars creates an insensitive for the white collars to innovate and eventually replace them.
During the operation I can hear the "sound" of the swinging of the machine. Is that automated or is there microphones on the machine?
nah you can't hear anything from it typically -- that's just the editing
just wanna say, love the videos. But i have a question about this, what would you do if the video cameras get dirty when you are at home operating the machine?
Probably move the machine to a safe area then have someone at the facility clean the camera
@@deathaman1125 i guess that makes sense, they probably have one employee that cleans all the machines.
But what if I wanna get hazard pay??
Connect the machine to Indian call centre
This will easily reduce the labour cost by magnitude
The only thing I see being a problem with some of the use cases are if you do lose a pice of equipment to sinkage or slip and it’s a hazardous area. Now you have to put even more people in to recover it.
How is that any different than if there was an operator in the machine? Also you could just write off the machine as a loss and let your inusrance buy a new one.
that's the whole point
sooo, exactly the same scenario as if human operators were there too?
@@littlehippo5004But without the chance that the operator get hurt or worse
Just feeding the system information & analytics so AI can work more efficiently in the future
Eventually the oil sands at Ft. McMurray will be totally automated which will increase profits and decrease costs. That means more profit for owners and shareholders.
Who is that new host he's seems smarter than the other one 😂
Brought to you by Australia. Same country that just hired a guy to serve as the "Parlimentary Secretary for Mens Behaviour Change. Welcome to being neuter
Australia happens to be a country that has always been at the cutting edge of new technologies. Australia is a country with a small population and a small economy, therefore people in Australia have to look at other ways of doing things.
No matter what piece of equipment Australia buys, it is not long until Australian companies or government pulls it apart and rebuilds it to operate in Australia and you can see this with American trucks (Mack and Kenworth) and aircraft (Boeing E-7 Wedgetail). There are many other examples of equipment being built in other countries and not being able to be used in Australia because of safety issues or not being able to operate in the Australian harsh environment and this includes people from America and Europe who can’t tolerate spiders and snakes, you know, the little things Australians keep as pets and let them wonder around their homes. And I have found that a tiger snake is better than a gun - they works autonomous.
@@anthonyj7989Kenworth trucks are custom designed and manufactured here in Bayswater, Melbourne, Australia.
Not sure about Mack?
Great
So that is roughly $20 worth of tech siting there. Is the price half a million?
John deere has a tractor that will follow a GPS line through a field, and just recently, they introduced a tractor that turns as well. I could tell you all what the next step for this remote cat operator station is, but i think you already know
Caterpillar's had autonomous equipment working for literally decades already
We have full fleets of autonomous Caterpillar dump trucks cruising around mines here in Aus. Caterpillar (U.S) actually developed and perfected the technology at a site here called Solomon (FMG), When I was there they had a fleet of about 70 full autonomous 793F's. Most O.E.Ms have the tech now.
As for tractors, check out tractorspotter here on UA-cam. The tractors in Europe have been using GPS for sowing and harvesting but the farmers still drive the tractors. For some farmers it won't be long before they have at least slave tractors following down the field rows performing the same or next function as the lead tractor.
I understand the concept but when you lose your feel of the machine it's self all your doing is causing way more wear and tear on that machine. This is clear in his operation. I'm old school trained I fine grade off fill as well string line doesn't line
Guess, a proper software can smoothen all the moves and make them as efficient as possible
I work on a farm we have demo some of this new driverless equipment set ups and additions and they aren’t taking jobs for a looooonnnnhgggggg time trust that still 100% more effective to put a dude in there and way cheaper
That would be especially so when dealing with John Deere I would think!
Next pandemic, work from home operators.
Only mechanics & ground workers left on site :P
This can work on the moon or Mars 🤔
Dangerous conditions, that's what apprentices are for. 🤪 Thunderbirds with all there gadgets influencing design 60yrs on.
Bro, this technology is really stoopid.
Mate what's WesTrack doing in the wrong state 🤣
Ewww drop that "k" please ^CG
No thanks,I dont ever ever ever want this happening!
Shocked they haven’t just ditched the screens and gone with VR goggles.
Goggles are very limited currently. Not the greatest resolution compared to like 6 screens in front of you.
@@astecheee1519tell that to DJI and the FPV drone op’s.
You still need a person to operate the excavator?? So where are we losing job?
Your machine is restarting to install Windows updates … ;)
🤣🤣🤣🤣try digging around gas,water,sewer,power and communication with that…good luck
Did he really pronounced centre as cent-ray? It’s pronounced center, but spelt different
Thankfully you cant program a robot to work on a site that's basically organised chaos.🙏😉
When you remove an operator regardless of the hazards or environment, You remove learnt methods and skills which come from experience.
⁉️What..
Did he pronounce it “ centrai’”⁉️🤪
It is center, dude, but English write it wrongly🤷♀️
You're either incredibly naive or being facetious Aaron, if you think this technology won't eventually replace the majority of human operators...
🤔🤔🤔🤘🤘🤘🤘
Aaron grow your hair back!!!. Dude NO!!.
Maybe he’s doing an episode of “undercover boss”, or going undercover to bust stray Cat dealers in high schools. 🤷♂️
Sorry folks, but I actually enjoyed running heavy equipment. I'm glad that I'm retired. I'm not going to sit inside some office or building using that garbage. Where's the skill, oh that's right... the younger generations would just rather have some computer doing everything. While never learning anything. 😂😂😂😂😂. But who's going to run the jackhammer, set the the forms , tie the rebar ,pour the concrete, finish the concrete. 😂😂😂😂😂
1:12 this is you
@@ChaseWatkins. This is you ..... Younger generations = SOYBOYCELLPHONEHOLDINGSOYBOYGENERATION
@@ChaseWatkins.I'm happily retired. Have fun working. 😂
Don’t worry. Someone will build a janky “Ai” to run these machines for you!
And corperations won’t have to waste money on paying machine operators. They’ll give it to the people who really deserve it - the shareholders. r
Perhaps you should check out Boston Dynamics robots. They are coming for all of us. We had a good run…
Good luck.
🙏🏼🌴🐈🐈🐈🌴🏴☠️
Lazy
More loss of jobs coming...
did you even watch the video?
you still need operators bruh
Good stuff but u can't feel what the machine is doing and feeling it is a massive part of operating
Yep, you still need operators, so no loss of jobs for excisting operators. I think 3D vision will be great for better depth preception.
@@2mindfulwas just saying. This really needs VR
If there is a opportunity to WFH doing this feel free to contact me, I wouldn't mind one bit😁
sadly, company owners want more money, so they will eliminate the operating engineer. robotic equipment will take the humans out of the seat..the future is not bright, and the retirees will not have a pension payment..and if Republicans have their way, we won't have a social security payments also..millions of old operators will out on the streets homeless..
And who gonna service all those even more complicated machines?
Humans.