Police say a Butler County man snapped after his wife told him their marriage was over, then climbed into an excavator and started to demolish the family home while she and their two daughters were ...

Amazing photo provided by Hitachi Construction Machinery. The 20-metric-ton excavator class sits in a great power and size band. Not too big. Not too small. Just right for serious production without ...

At CES 2026, Caterpillar Inc. unveiled a new generation of intelligent, autonomous construction machines designed to change how work gets done on jobsites. The company said the systems represent more ...

Caterpillar is diving deeper into incorporating AI and automation into its fleet of construction machinery through a partnership with semiconductor giant Nvidia. The construction equipment giant is ...

Excavators are useful beasts, and almost impossible to displace in many situations all over the globe. Little else is quite so effective on the job at hand, whether that be shifting material, clearing ...

Introducing a new book to be published in late August 2025, 'Introduction to Simscape Multibody: Mechanism Analysis with MATLAB/Simulink'. We are releasing a portion of the book ahead of its ...

Bedrock Robotics, led by a veteran of Alphabet Inc.’s autonomous tech unit, is emerging from stealth with $80 million and plans to make heavy construction equipment work around-the-clock without human ...

Intuitively, you think that everything that you stretch will pull back, but you wouldn’t expect a couple of pieces of plastic to win. Yet, researchers over at [AMOLF] have figured out a way to make a ...

Divers found the Antikythera mechanism in a shipwreck in 1900. Zde via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 More than a century ago, a group of sponge divers discovered a shipwreck near the Greek ...

Prozac (fluoxetine) is a prescription drug that treats depression and certain other mental health conditions. Its mechanism of action is to increase the availability of a brain chemical involved in ...

Ocean waves possess enough energy to meet global energy needs multiple times over, offering a massive potential source of clean, baseload power. Recent scientific research explores the interaction of ...