The unoccupied excavator being operated in South Korea form Germany
Construction equipment manufacturer Doosan has used 5G technology to remotely operate an excavator in South Korea from the Bauma exhibition in Germany, 8,500km away, in what it has claimed was a world first.
Using what it calls worldwide ‘TeleOperation’, an operator in a booth at Bauma controlled a Doosan DX380LC-5 40 tonne crawler excavator in Incheon, South Korea
The technology used has been developed in conjunction with LG U+, the South Korean telecommunications and data services company.
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