AIM Automates Construction and Mining with World's First AI Platform for Heavy Machinery, Announces $50 Million in Funding

REDMOND, Wash. — AIM, the world's first embodied AI platform for earthmoving machinery, announced it has raised $50 million to transform the global construction and mining industries. AIM's investors include Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Human Capital, Ironspring Ventures, Mantis, DCVC, and Elad Gil, among other great allies.

While mass earthmoving is imperative for our civilization to flourish, it has long depended on human operators working in some of the toughest environments. High-risk conditions also constrain productivity, given both historical and acute labor shortages across the ecosystem.

AIM's customers run their heavy machinery operations with maximum safety and at peak performance—thereby unlocking value across fleet availability, fuel savings, optimal site planning and execution. The plug-and-play technology retrofits heavy equipment, like bulldozers and excavators, in the field today regardless of make, model, size, or age.

Built by engineers with experience at Waymo, SpaceX, Google, Stripe, Tesla and Apple, AIM's AI platform enables a wide range of applications from mining essential materials to building planetary-scale infrastructure.

Earthmoving is the foundation of Maslow's pyramid of needs

"Everything is either mined or grown, and efficient earthmoving is required for both. Since the introduction of hydraulic machines like excavators in the 1800s, mining and construction have seen little of the automation that's transformed other industries. These are still among the most dangerous jobs in the world, and outcomes aren't getting better fast enough. AIM is changing that."

- Adam Sadilek, founding CEO of AIM

"Autonomous machines are an obvious unlock for dangerous industries like mining and construction. We backed AIM because of their strong team, technical approach, and early traction with customers. AI-powered heavy equipment will improve safety and productivity, and open the door to bigger breakthroughs in creating abundance of critical materials and resources throughout the world."

- Sven Strohband, Khosla Ventures

"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. The builtworld ecosystem has a 'show me' ethos, and we are excited to support AIM because of the results they have delivered in the field."

- Ty Findley, co-founder & General Partner of Ironspring Ventures

Moving Earth at Scale

Over the past century, not much has changed in how the industry moves large amounts of earth—from mining critical minerals, preparing ground for agricultural use, digging foundations for new structures, managing waste, or building and repairing infrastructure like roads, runways, underground utilities, transit lines, dams and levees.

Embodied AI turbocharges robotics to modify our physical world in powerful ways. Scaled deployment of this capability builds superior physical infrastructure safely, economically, and rapidly. This infrastructure, which includes material supply chains, utilities, and data centers then fuels further technological advancements—creating a positive feedback loop.

Autonomy enables zero-entry worksites and round the clock operations

Mining and construction companies work extremely hard to protect their staff, but the tools at their disposal have been limited—items like high visibility clothes and helmets do not address the root of safety risks. Construction and mining are some of the most dangerous jobs out there, with workers exposed to heavy machinery, tough conditions, and high-risk tasks. Mining has a fatal injury rate 5x higher than the average across all industries, and in construction a worker dies every 99 minutes in the U.S. alone [BLS].

By contrast, AIM is the safest solution that protects ground staff by creating zero-entry sites, where no person is on or near earthmoving equipment. In turn, autonomy grows and upskills employees to high leverage site management, where existing ground staff manages a significantly higher throughput AI-powered site, instead of sitting in the vehicles and being exposed to hazardous environments.

Terraforming the future – on Earth, and beyond

While AIM's technology is already transforming job sites across the globe, the company's autonomy platform is poised to deploy an undo button for some of the largest problems posed by our rapidly changing planet.

Terraforming—planetary engineering that reshapes otherwise uninhabitable land—has long been out of reach given the capital, resources, and time required to optimize the physical world.

With AIM's autonomous platform, scalable terraforming finally becomes possible. AI-powered earthmoving has a wide range of applications—from protecting swaths of land threatened by floods to preventing wildfires to restoring ecosystems previously damaged by natural disasters or hazardous waste. Within the next decade, AIM plans to bring its technology to terraform planets beyond Earth.