That article is nothing more than marketing for SafeAI.
Nearly all of those types of articles are nothing more than native advertising bought and paid for by the company the article promotes. I don't have any industry specific knowledge exactly how publicists work, but the short of it is you pay them boat loads of money a month and they have contacts in different industry publications that they call on to 'suggest' articles that are all but pre-written for the author.
Now I don't know if back in the good old days things were better or not, but I know now that digital media is almost never about revealing the truth about the world (say depicting the state of autonomous construction machinery) and it's almost always about capturing marketing spend and establishing a narrative.
After reading the article I did a quick search on Crunchbase and sure enough SafeAI just raised a
Series A of 21 million on June 21. They are flush with cash and what better way to spend it than by creating 'hype' around the company so they can raise a Series B. Plus, they need to incinerate, ahem I mean invest, cash so they can show how much they are growing and need a Series B.
That's how you get years of praise and outright lies in the media promoting a completely fraudulent company like Theranos. Or how an absolute donkey like that Adam Neumann character can raise something crazy like 15 billion dollars. Or how the guy that founded Nikola made a billion dollars with an supposed autonomous electric truck that had a literal extension cord ran to it during the presentation and filmed a commercial with the truck actually rolling down hill because it didn't run.
You could do worse that just assuming everything you read is a lie, but that goes doubly true for anything in the 'tech' sector. And triply true for anything that uses the words
deep learning or
neural net. If the have AI in the biz name...lol, just forget about it.
Other buzzwords where your BS radar should be screaming: green, carbon neutral, EV, renewable, and anything that mentions climate change.
Yes there are exceptions, but man everything is fake these days. /rant.
Also a skid steer is pretty much the last piece of equipment that would have a justifiable use case for 'autonomous technology'.