i wanted to ask about, no, what is it? Ih, not that you are in tune to what makes alec tick, but you certainly know what makes yourself tick. And what is it about the, even at the earliest ages, but particularly once you worked at a caterpillar, that captured your imagination and wanted,. You know, it clearly has continued on in your career. Where? Is it just just simply the size and scale of some of this machinery? Heis there something else that is just so interesting to work in and around these vehicles? Y know, thats and i'm just going to maybe give ou a little bit of background. Even before caterpillar and
Bibhrajit Halder has been a part of the autonomous driving technology space since the days of the DARPA Challenges, working on Caterpillar's early automated mining trucks before working at Ford, Apple and elsewhere. Now the founder and CEO of SafeAI, Halder is back in the mining and heavy construction space and he joins the show to share his perspective on the state of autonomous heavy equipment and its similarities and differences with the more widely-followed robotaxi space.