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BuilderX Teleoperation System

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Retrofit kit that lets one operator run heavy equipment from a remote console over cellular networks

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Deployments: 12
Companies that ran it

How it works on your site

The BuilderX Teleoperation System is a retrofit kit that converts an OEM excavator, electric rope shovel, loader, bulldozer or drill rig into a machine run from a remote tele-console, with live video, audio and vibration feedback. BuilderX builds no machine of its own: the kit installs on XCMG, Komatsu, Volvo, Taiyuan Heavy Industry and other hosts, and a trained operator digs, loads, dozes and cleans ship holds from a console while the machine stays on site. The system has shipped since 2020 across 27 confirmed deployments and 13 customers, most of them Chinese mines and bulk terminals; Sumitomo Corporation has been the exclusive Japanese distributor since May 2024, and a Hong Kong CITF pre-approved listing has carried it for subsidy since April 2026.

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Field outcomes

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Baotou Steel's Bayan Obo iron mine began retrofitting TZ WK-10 electric shovels and XCMG XE3000 excavators with the BuilderX Teleoperation System in 2021, and by 2023 had extended it to more shovels, dozers and drilling rigs.

Bayan Obo iron mine smart-mine remote control (白云鄂博铁矿) [iron ore]. Alias DEP_002 "Iron Ore Mining, 1,600 m" (dossier merge; kept as alias, not a separate register entry)., China

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BuilderX converted three Hitachi 890 excavators and one Lingong 953 loader to remote control with its BuilderX Teleoperation System at Xinjiang Shengxiong Energy's Heishan open-pit coal mine in Toksun County, Xinjiang, where the remote-controlled machines run in routine operation and the mine passed the region's intermediate intelligent-mine acceptance.

Heishan coal mine, Toksun (黑山煤矿) [coal, 4 Mt/yr], China

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China Coal's Piriqing open-pit coal mine worked with BuilderX to deliver the BuilderX Teleoperation System on its excavators and loaders in under a month, and the mine then passed intermediate-level intelligent-mining acceptance.

Piriqing open-pit coal mine (皮里青露天煤矿) [coal], China

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At CHN Energy's Heidaigou coal mine in the Zhungeer Coalfield, Builder X converted an XCMG XE7000 hydraulic backhoe excavator to the BuilderX Teleoperation System; after training, operators loaded trucks remotely at approximately 220 seconds per truck.

CHN Energy Heidaigou open-pit mine (Zhungeer coalfield), XCMG XE7000 [coal], China

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In 2022 Builder X fitted the BuilderX Teleoperation System to a TYHI WK-12 rope shovel at SPIC's Huolinhe coal mine in Inner Mongolia; loading averaged 3 minutes per truck, and in 2023 the mine upgraded another WK-12C electric shovel to the Tele+AI Operation System.

SPIC Huolinhe coal mine, TYHI WK-12 [coal], China

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Who has run it

27 deployments · 12 companies · 3 countries

Will it work on your site

Autonomy Level: Teleoperated, human in the loopAuto-Loading is claimed and unverified
Control Interface: Tele-console with joysticks and touchscreenOne console switches between machines
Fleet Management: Feeds the mine control centre for dispatchObserved at Bayan Obo
Video Bandwidth: Under 5 Mbps per Full HD stream
Max Simultaneous Video Feeds: 12 feeds per consoleLayout switching under 1 second
Fault Recovery Fastest Minutes: 15 minutesVendor-stated fastest case

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Field Altitude Operated: Above 5,400 mContinuous operation at a copper mine

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