Posts Tagged ‘excavator’
Project AME Sneak Peek at ORNL
by Eric Lanke NFPA CEO I recently made a trip down to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to check on the progress of Project AME—the world’s first 3D-printed hydraulic excavator. (That’s it under the tarp in the above photo.) And I wasn’t alone. It was actually a media event where we invited in members…
Read MoreWinner of Excavator Cab of the Future Design Contest Announced
The student engineering team from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign won the cab design contest for the 3-D printed excavator to be put on display at IFPE and CONEXPO-CON/AGG in Las Vegas next March. The team was one of many from across the country to submit a futuristic cab and human machine interface design.…
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