Planetary-Scale Earthmoving

Everything comes out of the ground. Everything from your breakfast today to the device you are reading this on requires a key primitive: molecules of material have to move. Every road, data center, utility line, every building starts with the movement of earth. AIM automates that first mile.

The scale is staggering: manufacturing just one electric vehicle (like a Tesla Model Y) requires moving 300 tons of earth. Annually, this creates a mountain of material over 2 miles in diameter and half a mile tall. Making a single smartphone that weighs 200g requires moving 75kg of material—amounting to 94 million tons of earth dug up every single year just for mobile devices.

While the global demand to build rises rapidly, manual earthmoving is stalled by severe labor shortages, operational bottlenecks, and safety risks. AIM solves this constraint with a hardened physical AI platform, retrofitting existing heavy machinery to move these foundational molecules autonomously, reliably, and safely under the most brutal conditions on Earth.

1. The Global Bottleneck: Labor & Infrastructure Limits

Severe Operator Shortage: America cannot find 349,000 construction workers this year. Directly delays AI data centers, power lines, and critical mineral supply chains.

Not a Funding Issue: Federal infrastructure dollars struggle to deploy because the physical capacity—crews and machine hours—is missing. Autonomous earthmoving converts approved funding into completed projects.

Civilization-Scale Pressures: Civilization-Scale Pressures: Massive earthmoving is required to handle compounding global crises: 43% of critical infrastructure is in disrepair (looming $2.6T cost to fix), food production must rise 60% by 2050 to feed our growing population, and clearing landmines via existing methods in Ukraine alone will take another 757 years.

2. The Technology: Physical AI for Genuinely Hard Environments

TRL9 Production System: TRL9 Production System: Hardened, commercial system running round the clock globally.

Unstructured Reality: Urban self-driving, like Waymo, solved a structured environment with pre-mapped streets, lanes, signs, and steady GPS. AIM operates with zero prior infrastructure. Handles active mines, military bases, and construction sites where terrain changes hourly, satellite signals drop, and no roads exist.

Universal Retrofit: Rugged plug-and-play platform converts existing heavy fleets—bulldozers, excavators, loaders, and shovels—into autonomous machines.

Zero-Entry Safety: Get your ground staff completely out of harm’s way.

3. Commercial Impact & Real-World Deployments

23% Unit Cost Reduction: Achieved by maximizing fleet utilization, optimizing layouts, cutting fuel use, reducing machine wear, and eliminating manual re-work.

Proven ROI: For example, a 16-machine autonomous mining fleet delivers $16.3M/year in direct OPEX savings and unlocks over $98M in additional top-line mine output.

Securing Global Supply Chains: We are accelerating building essential infrastructure, and mining elements to make key materials including steel, glass, semiconductors, concrete, and even toothpaste.

AI Data Center Growth: Earthworks for for new data centers.

Dual-Use Defense: Deployed with active military engineering units for high-threat operations including automated mine clearing, rapid base construction, and tactical terraforming across gray zones.

Enterprise Scaling Global rollouts across construction, mining, defense.

Interplanetary Mission: Reshaping unusable land on Earth first to create abundance, with long-term plans to replicate the process to terraform Mars and beyond.

4. Elite Team & Sophisticated Capital

Autonomy DNA: Built by heavy earthworks managers and military operators alongside deep-tech engineers who previously scaled systems at Waymo, SpaceX, Google, Tesla, Apple, and the Navy SEALs.

World-Class Backing: Some of the most sophisticated capital in the world is behind the first phase of AIM, including General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, Elad Gil, Human Capital, Ironspring Ventures, Mantis, Liquid2, DCVC.

5. Industry Validation & Testimonials

Our investment in autonomous mining technology supports our goal of providing the safest solution for protecting our employees and our equipment. We are excited to continue working with AIM and to be on the forefront of autonomous technologies," said Douglas T. Dietrich, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MTI. "This has been a great opportunity to leverage cutting-edge technology in complex environments, in a way that will unlock even greater safety and productivity for our workforce.

Douglas T. Dietrich

Chairman & CEO, MTI

The OCP Group, the world's leading phosphate miner and phosphate fertilizer producer has been leveraging AIM's technology. OCP & InnovX teams have been working with AIM since 2024 to bring autonomy and automation to their next-generation mine sites. Initial piloting has been successful and the teams are now expanding project scope.

Abhiram Kannan

Principal at Bidra, OCP's corporate venture fund

Wayne Brothers is exploring automation not to replace our operators, but to help every operator perform like our most experienced pros. We want to maximize what we can accomplish with the machines we have, extend their working life, and make sure we're getting the most out of every day we can actually get work done. It's about elevating everyone's game and driving productivity when it matters most.

Jim Rhodes

SVP of Wayne Brothers (Customer)

Most autonomy companies can demonstrate the technology but few are live in the field doing real work. Very few can make the economics work. AIM made it work. We are bullish because we see the commercial scale.

Vinod Khosla

Founder of Khosla Ventures

In modern combat, some of the most dangerous moments are those that entail clearing or maneuvering through obstacles, logistical supply across gray zones, and repairing critical infrastructure... Autonomous earthmovers that can accomplish vital missions without putting people in harm's way is not just a convenience. It is a moral responsibility and a key to winning.

Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster (Ret.)

U.S. Army

AIM solves the two problems every military engineer faces: a shortage of skilled operators and too many of them in harm's way. The technology is TRL9, it's in the field, and it works.

Brigadier General Duke DeLuca (Ret.)

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Beyond technology, AIM has demonstrated to our unique network of heavy equipment operators located around the world that autonomous operations provide tangible productivity gains with unparalleled safety...

Ty Findley

Co-Founder & General Partner of Ironspring Ventures

AIM's autonomous technology boosts equipment efficiency and maximizes utilization by operating continuously, increasing production rates and eliminating variability caused by manual operations...

Pat Pohlman

Former Director of Continuous Improvement at Peabody Energy

AIM has crossed the line most autonomy companies never do: from lab demo to commercial reality. Their deployment data shows this is not experimental technology. It is a working product with real business value.

Sven Strohband

Partner at Khosla Ventures

AIM in the News

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· January 21, 2026

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