AIM Automates Construction and Mining with World’s First AI Platform for Heavy Machinery, Announces $50 Million in Funding

AIM, the world’s first embodied AI platform for earthmoving machinery, announced it has raised $50 million to transform the global construction and mining industries. AIM’s investors include Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Human Capital, Ironspring Ventures, Mantis, and DCVC, among other great allies.

While mass earthmoving is imperative for our civilization to flourish, it has long depended on human operators working in some of the toughest environments. High-risk conditions also constrain productivity, given both historical and acute labor shortages across the ecosystem.

AIM’s customers run their heavy machinery operations with maximum safety and at peak performance—thereby unlocking value across fleet availability, fuel savings, optimal site planning and execution. The plug-and-play technology retrofits heavy equipment, like bulldozers and excavators, in the field today regardless of make, model, size, or age.

Built by engineers with experience at Waymo, SpaceX, Google, Stripe, Tesla and Apple, AIM’s AI platform enables a wide range of applications from mining essential materials to building planetary-scale infrastructure.

Earthmoving is the foundation of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

“Everything is either mined or grown, and efficient earthmoving is required for both,” said Adam Sadilek, founding CEO of AIM. “Since the introduction of hydraulic machines like excavators in the 1800s, mining and construction have seen little of the automation that’s transformed other industries. These are still among the most dangerous jobs in the world, and outcomes aren’t getting better fast enough. AIM is changing that.”

“Autonomous machines are an obvious unlock for dangerous industries like mining and construction. We backed AIM because of their strong team, technical approach, and early traction with customers,” said Sven Strohband of Khosla Ventures. “AI-powered heavy equipment will improve safety and productivity, and open the door to bigger breakthroughs in creating abundance of critical materials and resources throughout the world.”

Moving earth, at scale

Over the past century, not much has changed in how the industry moves large amounts of earth—from mining critical minerals, preparing ground for agricultural use, digging foundations for new structures, managing waste, or building and repairing infrastructure like roads, runways, underground utilities, transit lines, dams and levees.

Embodied AI turbocharges robotics to modify our physical world in powerful ways. Scaled deployment of this capability builds superior physical infrastructure safely, economically, and rapidly. This infrastructure, which includes material supply chains, utilities, and data centers then fuels further technological advancements—creating a positive feedback loop.

Commercial testimonials

By retrofitting existing heavy equipment with cutting-edge autonomy, AIM enables its customers to achieve maximum safety and productivity. Sites running AIM AI realize massive improvements of their top and bottom lines.

“AIM's autonomous technology boosts equipment efficiency and maximizes utilization by operating continuously, increasing production rates and eliminating variability caused by manual operations. Leveraging AI, it achieves top operator expertise, raising productivity and reducing performance fluctuations,” said Pat Pohlman who has 40 years of mining experience and is a former Director of Continuous Improvement at Peabody Energy. “Mining companies can now enhance safety and efficiency in hazardous environments, achieving greater profitability with automation while maintaining a risk-averse strategy.”

Wayne Brothers, a leading construction company in the US:

“With material and labor costs climbing, we’re always looking for ways to improve how we operate. Our best operators can extend the life of expensive machine components by 50% just through skill and technique. That’s the kind of performance we want across our entire team,” said Jim Rhodes, SVP at Wayne Brothers.

“Wayne Brothers is exploring automation not to replace our operators, but to help every operator perform like our most experienced pros. We want to maximize what we can accomplish with the machines we have, extend their working life, and make sure we’re getting the most out of every day we can actually get work done. It’s about elevating everyone’s game and driving productivity when it matters most.”

Minerals Technologies Inc. (MTI), a leading, technology-driven specialty minerals company:

“At MTI, we place the safety and wellbeing of our people above all else. Our work with AIM has helped protect employees who work in complex environments on a daily basis, and we continue to see significant benefits both in terms of site productivity and safety,” said Douglas T. Dietrich, Chairman and CEO of MTI. “Autonomous technologies are at the forefront of advancing mining operations, and we are proud to partner with AIM on the next wave of cutting-edge innovation.”

Autonomy enables zero-entry worksites and round the clock operations

Mining and construction companies work extremely hard to protect their staff, but the tools at their disposal have been limited—items like high visibility clothes and helmets do not address the root of safety risks. Construction and mining are some of the most dangerous jobs out there, with workers exposed to heavy machinery, tough conditions, and high-risk tasks. Mining has a fatal injury rate 5x higher than the average across all industries, and in construction a worker dies every 99 minutes in the U.S. alone [BLS].

By contrast, AIM is the safest solution that protects ground staff by creating zero-entry sites, where no person is on or near earthmoving equipment. In turn, autonomy grows and upskills employees to high leverage site management, where existing ground staff manages a significantly higher throughput AI-powered site, instead of sitting in the vehicles and being exposed to hazardous environments.

Terraforming the future – on Earth, and beyond

While AIM’s technology is already transforming job sites across the globe, the company’s autonomy platform is poised to deploy an undo button for some of the largest problems posed by our rapidly changing planet.

Terraforming—planetary engineering that reshapes otherwise uninhabitable land—has long been out of reach given the capital, resources, and time required to optimize the physical world.

With AIM’s autonomous platform, scalable terraforming finally becomes possible. AI-powered earthmoving has a wide range of applications—from protecting swaths of land threatened by floods to preventing wildfires to restoring ecosystems previously damaged by natural disasters or hazardous waste. Within the next decade, AIM plans to bring its technology to terraform planets beyond Earth.

About AIM

AIM Intelligent Machines, Inc. (AIM) delivers the maximum safety and productivity level in mining and earthmoving operations. AIM’s platform provides a rugged plug-and-play solution for a wide range of heavy equipment fleets in the field today. We take customers from their current mode of operation to autonomous operation with a rigorous 3-step process. Visit www.aim.vision to enroll today and unlock:

• Maximum duty cycle: Operate across a wide range of weather and environments
• Zero-entry worksites: Dramatically improve ground staff safety, and upskill operators to AI site managers
• High-performance retrofit: Autonomy for a wide range of heavy machinery regardless of manufacturer, age, or size
• AI-optimized site planning: Increase throughput and productivity, massive OPex and CAPex savings
• Ultimate optionality: Run your fleet anywhere, even at sites without GPS or internet

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