Volvo reveals innovative plans to the international press

Earlier this week, a gathering of plant and machinery journalists from all over Europe descended on Eskilstuna in Sweden for the Volvo Days event.

The guests were also invited to attend the company’s inaugural Innovation Forum, which took place at the Eskilstuna factory. During the event, Volvo Construction Equipment announced its plans to develop driverless machines that will use anti-collision technology and computer programming to enable the machines to communicate with each other. This futuristic technology could be used to relieve operators from the more mundane tasks that we often have to engage in, like truck loading, and haymaking spoil for instance. This may sound like science fiction to many of us who operate machines on a daily basis, but it’s likely to become a reality in the future.  You can read more on this incredible development in our Editor, Graham Black’s report from Eskilstuna in a future edition of Earthmovers Magazine. In the meantime, here is a taste of the normal machine activity from our good friend, Finnish journalist and Editor of Koneporssi, Olli Paivio, who was also lucky enough to attend the demonstration, and has put together this video.