Tackling construction labor shortages: ASI and SoftBank partner on autonomous fleets

What happened

last week announced a joint venture to commercialize brand-agnostic autonomous heavy equipment to address severe labor shortages and accelerate infrastructure projects worldwide. ASI and SoftBank join forces with $225M to scale brand-agnostic autonomous heavy equipment across major infrastructure projects.

The post Tackling construction labor shortages: ASI and SoftBank partner on autonomous fleets appeared first on The Robot Report . Autonomous Solutions Inc., or ASI, and SoftBank Group Corp.

“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.”

Key facts

• last week — announced: a joint venture to commercialize brand-agnostic autonomous heavy equipment to address severe labor shortages and accelerate infrastructure projects worldwide