Caterpillar Is Now Building AI Brains Into Its Bulldozers and Trucks

Caterpillar and NVIDIA announced a deeper partnership on 7 January to put AI smarts directly into heavy equipment—letting bulldozers grade themselves and trucks haul loads without a driver. Caterpillar moves from simply selling to AI companies to baking machine intelligence into its own products. Success hinges on whether construction firms will pay extra for self-operating equipment.