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15 million investment in autopilot tractor

Startup Built Robotics from America raised a tidy sum of $ 15 million from generous investors to develop an autonomous tractor. The company of developers demonstrated the work of this miracle technology in its video on YouTube.
The tractor can work autonomously thanks to a more advanced version of the optical rangefinder LIDAR. Its difference from those devices that are installed on conventional machines is that this invention is designed specifically for use in extreme operating conditions (vibration, shock, other mechanical stresses).
The tractor can do all the movements on a construction site autonomously, without human intervention, and also perform various earthworks, dig pits with specified parameters. Using lasers, a specialist evaluates the amount of work performed.
An autonomous tractor is “trained” to recognize people on its way, and this speaks in favor of reducing the level of injuries at work. The developers also guarantee the high productivity of their invention, which is commensurate with a team of several people. Moreover, the tractor is not subject to injuries, does not know fatigue and does not need breaks for lunch or a “smoke break”.
Neither the price of such know-how, nor the possibility of its release in mass production is still known.