An excavator at an open-cut coal mine struck an overhead powerline and caused an electrical discharge over the cab.

Abstract: To address the challenges of position tracking and contact force control during autonomous excavator operations, a fuzzy adaptive impedance control strategy is proposed. The fuzzy logic ...

A man stumbles upon an old excavator hidden in the woods and decides to bring it back to working condition.

The vehicle, described by police as an 'earthmover', was captured on video ploughing through a Royal Mail lorry on Saturday ...

Plans to demolish “redundant” and “unsafe” fire-hit buildings at a former Sunderland waste site have been given the green ...

In a previous video I attempted to use a spider lift to remove a tree...that did not go according to plan, so lets finish the ...

Metal to some. Illegal to authorities. Two fans were arrested for a “dangerous stunt” they pulled during a recent Metallica concert. Consequence.net reports how an as-of-yet-unidentified 20-year-old ...

Yesterday, I was northbound going through the St. James gate. A car in the visitor lane was going through a raised gate and suddenly stopped and waved a golf cart across. I was following the car and I ...

Common sense suggests that dangerous jobs, the ones that have us climbing on roofs or protecting our skulls with hard hats, should deliver higher wages. The term “hazard pay” comes to mind. Yet some ...

In addition to its newly updated 303.5 mini excavator, Caterpillar revealed another batch of updates for its 5- to 10-metric-ton compact excavators at this year’s Utility Expo. The biggest updates ...

And that’s why she’s the most dangerous woman in philanthropy. Not because she’s corrupt in the traditional sense, but because she’s convincing. Her giving spree — over $17 billion to more than 2,000 ...