SCI & TECH● LOW1h ago · Sep 21, 2026, 7:11 PM

Remote Bulldozer Improves Landfill Safety

Human Progress · north america

“Inside a cool, dimly lighted trailer where the quiet is broken mostly by the crackle of radio traffic, Abrin Vasquez drives a 40-ton bulldozer hundreds of yards away. Vasquez is remotely piloting a Caterpillar dozer spreading trash across the Marana Regional Landfill near Tucson, Ariz. He used to be out in the heat running the […] The post Remote Bulldozer Improves Landfill Safety appeared first on Human Progress.

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