By Steve Nasburg
Note: This feature is in the March TT&C 2022 issue.
Note: This feature is in the March TT&C 2022 issue.
Imagine sitting at your desk, with a pile of spilled paperclips that fell out of the little tray organizer. You open a drawer and grab a tiny hydraulic excavator, front-end loader and a truck with a dump trailer, along with one controller.
With the remote, you fire up the engines. The excavator rolls to the pile, where you direct the material-handling grapple you installed to pick up stray paperclips and pile them neatly in one area. Then the front-end loader starts scooping with the bucket, dumping loads into the trailer. Once it’s full, you maneuver the truck back to the paperclip tray and fill it, returning for the next load. Think that’s a couple decades into the future? Wrong. We’re there now.
With the remote, you fire up the engines. The excavator rolls to the pile, where you direct the material-handling grapple you installed to pick up stray paperclips and pile them neatly in one area. Then the front-end loader starts scooping with the bucket, dumping loads into the trailer. Once it’s full, you maneuver the truck back to the paperclip tray and fill it, returning for the next load. Think that’s a couple decades into the future? Wrong. We’re there now.
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