This picture and video galley of the autonomous bucket excavator THOR (Terraforming Heavy Outdoor Robot) shows the different states of the autonomous excavator project.

Technical and scientific information about the autonomous excavator project can be found here.

: Picture of the real excavator during a partially autonomous excavation operation. The operator only remains inside the cabin for safety reasons

: Initial status before the the autonomous excavation of gravel starts.

: Filling the bucket with gravel.

: Moving the filled bucket to the dumping position.

: Dumping gravel into the truck.

Letzte Änderung: 11. Apr. 2012