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Waymo for Excavators
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We’re building a remote teleop and autonomous stack for excavators. Here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCNmNm3lQGk. Interfacing with existing excavators for enabling remote teleop (or autonomy) is hard.
Short excerpt from the founders’ Launch HN post. Read the full original at the link below.
Read the launch post on Hacker News Company website
Posted 2025-09-24 · 103 points · 78 comments. Batch as stated by the founders in the post title.
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