Caterpillar Is Bringing to AI Deployment What It Learned From Automating Mining
Caterpillar has spent more than three decades running autonomous machines at remote mining sites, and CTO Jaime Mineart now says that experience is the template for how the company deploys AI. This piece covers the 8.6 billion tonnes hauled autonomously, the lesson that deploying a machine is not transforming a site, the voice-driven Cat AI Assistant built on 1.6 million connected assets and 16 petabytes of Helios data, AI agents modernising legacy code, the record $20.5 billion quarter driven by data-centre power demand, the $100 million workforce training pledge, and the honest limits of the mining analogy for organisations planning their own AI rollout.