Australia’s first fully autonomous robotic drive piling machine is now in use at the farm.
Still in its early stages, it has a current productivity of 120 pile installations a day, with a goal of hitting 300 per day as it improves.
At the Goorambat location, it will have installed hundreds of thousands of piles when it clocks off.
It’s an employer's dream, being a fully automated piece of kit and able to run 24 hours a day, including during wet weather.
Due to the fact it uses vibration to install the piles instead of repeated force, it is 20db quieter.
The machine also has refusal detection, meaning that when the pile won’t go in any further, it will flag them and then continue to the next pile.
It has a built-in safety ring, pausing operation if it detects a person or object in a 50m radius.
It is being developed by Bouygues Construction, with the hope to send it across the world, where weather conditions are harsher, such as the Middle East.
Other ambitions for the machine include self-loading engineering, as that requires human intervention at the moment.
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