Ludwig: Future of Mining and Construction Will Be Fully Autonomous
Peter Ludwig · A Rare Look Inside Applied Intuition’s Physical AI Garage · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · Apr 7, 2026 · at 8:40
Peter Ludwig, CTO of physical AI company Applied Intuition, discusses how autonomous software addresses industrial labor shortages during a tour of their garage.
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“So the future of mining and eventually construction is going to be these fully autonomous operations, where labor shortage is a real problem in the industry, and so this allows a very small number of people to control a huge number of vehicles.”
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