Autonomous Solutions, Inc. (ASI), a global leader in industrial vehicle automation and developer of the Mobius autonomous fleet management system, has launched ASI Construction with SoftBank Group Corp.
ASI Construction is ASI’s new business unit, which focuses on automating construction equipment to address growing construction demand and a dwindling labor supply, alongside agriculture, logistics, and landscaping.
“ASI has been doing construction product development for 25-plus years and counts John Deere, CNH, and other world leaders as its customers. ASI Construction leverages ASI’s recent strategic divestment and departure from mining with the sale of ASI Mining to Epiroc,” explained Mel Torrie, the Chief Executive Officer at ASI. “Especially in low-to-no population areas, automation of construction equipment is critical to address the chasm between ever-growing demands for heavy construction projects and the dwindling labor supply. Since selling ASI Mining, the ASI team has focused on expanding its long-served off-road markets, such as logistics and agriculture. We are excited to be rapidly expanding into heavy construction.”
Added Torrie, “ASI Construction will develop and operate a fleet of autonomous construction vehicles in the United States. ASI looks forward to serving the construction market by leveraging ASI’s industry-leading autonomy stack, which has matured through two decades of development and years of real-world rugged deployments, such as mining and agriculture. This development in heavy construction will help ASI in other markets.”
Mobius, ASI’s autonomous fleet management system, is innovative safety robotic hardware whose software makes any fleet, large or small, entirely autonomous.
Founded in 2000 by a group of engineers who took technologies developed at Utah State University into the commercial sector, ASI has grown to become one of the largest privately held robotics-focused companies anywhere. Homebase is the company’s 100-acre proving ground in Northern Utah with offices in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. For more information, visit www.asirobots.com.