AIM Platform

AIMEarthmoving, Road Construction & Paving

Fully autonomous earthmoving retrofit; bulldozers and excavators, zero-entry worksites

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Deployments: 5
Companies that ran it

How it works on your site

The AIM Platform is a retrofit autonomy kit that converts existing bulldozers, excavators, and other heavy earthmoving equipment into autonomous machines without replacing the host hardware. It covers nine subtasks across earthmoving and road preparation, from mass excavation and rough grading to compaction and aggregate base placement; the crew shifts from operating each machine individually to supervising a fleet from a tablet interface. The platform has been in commercial operations since 2021 and is currently shipping, with dealer partnerships across the U.S. and Australia/New Zealand.

Earthmoving

Site Clearing and Mass Excavation (Cut)

The machine operates autonomously with no person on or near the equipment during active cuts. Collision avoidance stops the dozer when someone enters the operating zone, and the crew monitors fleet progress from the AIM-OS tablet rather than riding in the cab.

Rough Grading and Contouring

Onboard sensors build a terrain model that maps slope, roughness, and stability in real time, and the blade follows that model through each grading pass. Confirmed host machines include the D10T and D11 dozers, both demonstrated at production mine sites.

Backfilling, Compaction, Finish Grading, Soil Hauling, Trenching (Utility Excavation)

Road Construction & Paving

Aggregate Base Placement, Subgrade Preparation

Who has run it

5 deployments · 5 companies

Will it work on your site

Connectivity: RTK-GPS positioning (centimeter-level) for most commercial sites; SLAM-based fallback for GPS-denied environments. Edge compute onboard.
Environment: Dust, heat, cold, low visibility. Independently corroborated via Air Force RADR contract and investor documentation, though no published IP ratings or quantified environmental bounds.
Fleet management: Autonomous multi-machine coordination with remote single-operator oversight. Vendor references ISO 23725:2024 (AHS/FMS interoperability for surface mining).
Navigation: LiDAR and camera sensors with SLAM. Centimeter-level accuracy via RTK-GPS in standard operation. SLAM-based fallback for GPS-denied environments (accuracy in that mode not independently confirmed).
Hardware durability: Sensor suite engineered for heavy-equipment vibration and outdoor conditions. No published IP or environmental ratings.
Geographic support: USA (HQ in Washington state; additional U.S. sites maker-stated), ANZ (via Herga Group, exclusive dealer), Morocco (OCP phosphate mining). U.S. Air Force contracts for base/airfield work.

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Compatible equipment: Retrofit kit for dozers, excavators, loaders, backhoes, compactors, graders, and scrapers. Works across make, model, size, and age of host machine.Specific model compatibility (e.g., D10T, D11) confirmed only for select deployments.

As the maker states it.