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Caterpillar and FieldAI partner on physical AI for jobsites
Caterpillar announced a collaboration with robotics company FieldAI on Sept. 5, 2026, aimed at bringing physical AI and autonomous systems to construction sites and industrial environments The companies plan to combine Caterpillar’s operational data and engineering with FieldAI’s robot foundation models, along with NVIDIA computing and digital twin tools
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Caterpillar and FieldAI are combining industrial expertise with AI-enabled robot foundation models for construction and industrial site automation.
Planned applications include autonomous inspections for safety, digital twins for operational insight, and AI-driven simulation for industrial operations.
The partnership will use NVIDIA accelerated computing and NVIDIA Omniverse for robot-agnostic autonomy technology across multiple robotic platforms.
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