Whether you’re building your own home or buying a fixer-upper that needs a significant amount of work, the costs and stress of applying for a construction loan and a permanent mortgage loan can be overwhelming. In this article There’s a way to finance situations like these, though, without having to …
Read More »Caterpillar looks to mining, construction, and space automation as traditional equipment sales decline
(Reuters) — Question: How can a company like Caterpillar try to counter a slump in sales of bulldozers and trucks during a pandemic that has made every human a potential disease vector? Answer: Cut out human operators, perhaps? Caterpillar’s autonomous driving technology, which can be bolted on to existing machines, …
Read More »OpenSpace raises $15.9 million to automate photo documentation on construction sites
VB Transform Watch every session from the AI event of the year On-Demand Watch Now OpenSpace, a platform that helps construction teams track the progress of building projects through capturing 360-degree photos of construction sites, has raised $ 15.9 million in a series B round of funding led by Menlo Ventures. …
Read More »Cesium makes construction smarter with drones, 3D visualization, and Komatsu deal
Cesium has created a way for construction sites to collect and channel their visual data so that it can be useful for keeping tabs on a construction project’s progress. And now it has a partnership with construction equipment manufacturer Komatsu. Cesium collects data at the edge of a network from …
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