Komatsu packages quarry and earthworks autonomy
Bedrock Robotics
Komatsu is showing that autonomy is moving from a mine only feature for giant fleets into a sellable add on for ordinary quarry and earthmoving jobs. In practice, it is combining Pronto’s driving system with Komatsu trucks, dealer installation, and Smart Quarry software, while also pushing iMC 3.0 excavators with built in 3D controls into civil earthworks. That gives contractors one vendor for machine, software, service, and eventually multi machine automation.
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The Pronto deal is not just a pilot. Komatsu launched Smart Quarry Autonomous in August 2025 for North America, said it can retrofit select haul trucks or ship new ones with autonomy installed, and routes support through its dealer network. That matters because quarry buyers care as much about uptime, parts, and field service as the driving software itself.
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Komatsu is also widening from quarry haulage into civil earthworks. In September 2025 it announced a separate program with TIER IV and EARTHBRAIN to automate articulated and rigid dump trucks for civil engineering and quarry sites in Japan, with HM400 and HD785 as initial target models. This points to a broader jobsite stack, not a single truck feature.
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On excavators, IMC 3.0 is a bridge product between operator assist and full autonomy. The PC220LCi-12 adds factory integrated 3D boundary control and other automated digging and swing functions, so Komatsu can start with grade control and repeatable machine motions before moving customers to unmanned workflows. Bedrock, by contrast, starts with retrofit autonomy on existing excavators across brands.
The next step is a construction site where Komatsu sells the truck, the excavator, the planning software, the autonomy package, and the dealer service contract as one system. That pushes the market toward integrated fleets and raises the bar for retrofit startups, which now have to beat not just machine intelligence, but also OEM distribution and service reach.