XCMG robots complete highway project

Mike Hayes Consultant Editor, Construction Europe / KHL Content Studio

18 October 2021

The world’s ‘largest ever’ autonomous road construction fleet has been deployed to complete a maintenance project on China’s busy Nanjing-Shanghai expressway.

Chinese construction equipment giant XCMG put ten autonomous tandem rollers and two unmanned large-width pavers to work on the resurfacing project, with the fleet controlled by the BeiDou satellite positioning reference station.

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