Autonomous and AI enabled technology adoption

“Customer product utilization remains high, the number of parked trucks remains low and the age of the fleet remains elevated and our autonomous solutions continue to see strong customer acceptance.”

“In addition to that, we continue to invest significantly in technology to help our customers be more successful. All the tools that we're putting into our machines to, for example, allow our customer to hire a relatively inexperienced operator and have them operate a machine like a pro who's been at it for many years.”

“Taking center stage at the Caterpillar CES exhibit was a Cat 972 wheel loader retrofitted to be an extended range electrified machine hybrid technical demonstrator. The demonstrator can run fully battery electric with zero exhaust emissions for several hours. It has an on-board generator and charger that enables full day uptime without requiring an investment in direct current, or DC charging infrastructure.”

“We showcased our continuous investment in the core technologies of autonomy, alternative fuels, connectivity and digital, and electrification. Our ability to provide these solutions reflects investments of more than $30 billion in R&D over the past 20 years to deliver best-in-class innovation.”

“Working with our dealers, we are leveraging over 1.5 million connected reporting assets and digital tools. Our Cat digital tools allow customers to more efficiently improve uptime, manage their fleets, and transact on our ecommerce platforms.”

“In initial testing, the demonstrator maintains or exceeds the performance of a Cat 972 internal combustion machine while providing customers with the benefits of a hybrid system.”

“For example, this year we launched an internal generative AI solution designed to optimize the creation of intelligent leads, which we call Prioritize Service Events, or PSEs. This tool significantly reduces the time and effort required for service recommendations, helping customers avoid unplanned downtime by clearly identifying the recommended repair options and timing for customers.”

“We'll continue to try to get more adoption of our technology like autonomy and digital capabilities to support our customers.”

“We also continue to see growing customer acceptance of our autonomous solutions.”

“We also continue to see growing demand and customer acceptance of our autonomous solutions.”

“With regards to autonomy, we continue to see greater acceptance by our customers of the need for autonomous solutions.”

“We also continue to see growing demand and customer acceptance of our autonomous solutions.”

“For example, the adoption of ExactApply technology on model year 2025 sprayers increased by over 10% year-over-year, reaching a nearly 80% take rate in this year's early order program.”

“For 2025, across both factory-installed options and retrofit precision upgrades, we have currently taken over one thousand orders for new See and Spray Premium and Ultimate units.”

“This example highlights the importance of finding new ways to meet our customers at every stage of their precision tech journey.”

“We recently changed the pricing model from a one-time cost to a recurring license that allows customers to access the vital technology at a fraction of the traditional upfront investment. In the first year alone, we sold over eight thousand kits, and these kits are being installed on equipment with an average model year vintage of 2012.”

“There's been quite a bit of discussion about our pay-per-use model and if it's the right go-to-market strategy for some of our latest tech offerings. The reality is that we're seeing higher levels of adoption using this model compared to our traditional upfront pricing approach, but only when it makes sense.”

“Our goal is to enable more customers to experience the impact of our See and Spray technology by leveraging a different business model to unlock that value, which is more crucial than ever in the current macro environment.”

“Our flagship Sense and Act technology, C and Spray, covered one million acres this year alone, reducing herbicide use by an average of nearly 60%.”

“In fact, we expect our customers will experience up to a 20% boost on average in harvest productivity from this feature alone.”

“Global year-over-year growth in highly engaged acres is over 30%, with South America notably up nearly 50%.”

“When you have technology that you know is going to save money for your customers, you want to get that solution in their equipment as quickly as possible.”

“This year also brought about a range of new and exciting solutions as we furthered our progress on many of our LEAP ambitions, including connected machines, engaged acres, and Autonomous Acres.”

“At the top end of our tech stack, we're seeing record adoption of some of our most advanced features. For example, over 75% of combined EOP orders have opted for our highest level of harvest settings automation because of the immediate value this technology will bring to their operations.”

“Ovation 4.0 brings customer-focused innovation, such as secure generative AI models to offer prescriptive operations and maintenance guidance together in a robust solutions portfolio.”

“It also offers integration with our Ovation Green software to improve holistic awareness across traditional and renewable power generation and storage to aid customers who have an increasingly complex mix of generating assets.”

“One of our breakthrough innovation priorities is software-defined automation. Our industry-leading Ovation Automation platform just launched a software-defined AI-ready platform for the power and water industries.”

“The Ovation Automation Platform 4.0 builds upon our boundless automation vision to bring a unifying data fabric across the organizations to optimize operations from device to enterprise.”

“For us, from a software perspective, first off, all of our software offerings are built on first principle models. Very, very sticky and a lot of domain knowledge built into these simulation capabilities, not just at Aspen, but also our offerings.”

“Nigel provides intelligent workflows with AI-driven test design and orchestration to accelerate troubleshooting, optimize lab performance, and enhance decision-making. This award demonstrates Emerson Electric Co.'s leadership in AI-enabled test automation and reflects continued momentum as we move the industry towards autonomous test operations.”

“Today, Emerson Electric Co. released the next generation of Nigel.ai, strengthening our capabilities in AI-enabled test. These upgrades deliver step-changing performance by moving Nigel.ai from an AI assistant to an AI author, accelerating code development to make engineering workflows more efficient from design and validation through production.”

“This evolution marks a clear step along our roadmap towards AgenTeq AI, software increasingly enhances productivity, and we are seeing accelerated user adoption of LabVIEW since the first launch of Nigel in 2025.”

“So the threat of AI disrupting our software business is very minimal as we see it today. And really as a counterpoint, AI capability we're building into our software should frankly accelerate the growth.”

“As Vimal noted, our team is making significant commercial R&D investment to maintain its leadership position in quantum computing.”

“In November, QuantiNUM announced the launch of Helios, the world's most accurate commercial quantum computer, which nearly doubles the qubit count of its predecessor, H2, and we believe sets a new standard for quantum computing performance with the highest fidelity for quantum computing qubits ever released in the market.”

“Quantum also announced a partnership to integrate Helios with NVIDIA's AI supercomputing technology to create powerful new architecture that can solve the world's most pressing challenges.”

“Following the recent fundraising in which QuantiNUM raised $840 million at a $10 billion pre-money valuation, the pace of both technological and commercial progress at Continuum is rapidly increasing.”

“This collaboration between QuantiNUM and NVIDIA is creating a future where AI becomes more expansive through quantum computing, and quantum computing becomes more powerful through AI.”

“We're using AI-enabled models to optimize machine settings for more efficient changeovers, leading to better utilization and higher yield.”