Overview
- Caterpillar announced an expanded collaboration with NVIDIA to integrate edge AI, autonomy-enabling compute, and digital simulations across construction, mining, and manufacturing.
- The Cat AI Assistant debuted as an in-cab and digital helper using Caterpillar’s Helios data and NVIDIA Riva speech models to answer questions, coach operators, and issue safety alerts.
- A pilot “Cat AI” system running on NVIDIA’s Jetson Thor is being demonstrated in a Cat 306 CR Mini Excavator to showcase on-device inference and assistive capabilities.
- Caterpillar is building digital twins of jobsites and factories with NVIDIA Omniverse and OpenUSD, powered by high-frequency telemetry reported at roughly 2,000 messages per second.
- The companies describe “autonomy at scale” and AI-optimized manufacturing via NVIDIA AI Factory as next steps, with current efforts limited to pilots, demos, and trials.