ConExpo might be a kind of homecoming for Bobcat’s battery-electric RogueX3 –it was in Las Vegas at the beginning of the 12 months that the machine was first unveiled to the general public throughout CES 2026.
Whereas CES attendees had been impressed by the machine’s glossy look and cabless design, the devoted development trade viewers at ConExpo will little question dig deeper into its autonomous capabilities and suite of synthetic intelligence-powered techniques designed to remodel and innovate compact development gear operations.
Furthermore, development operatives might be notably within the third-generation RogueX3’s enhanced modularity –an idea that enables the machine to be configured with or and not using a cab, change between tracked or wheeled undercarriages, and modify elevate arm configurations primarily based on particular purposes.
“As workforce wants change and jobsites turn out to be extra advanced, we’re responding with clever techniques that empower folks to perform extra, quicker and smarter,” says Scott Park, chief government and vice chairman of Doosan Bobcat.
Whereas demonstrated in electrical kind, the platform’s versatile structure additionally helps a number of energy choices together with diesel, hybrid and hydrogen configurations.
Powering all of Bobcat’s electrical gear portfolio is its Bobcat Normal Unit Pack (BSUP), a modular battery system engineered for harsh environments, which can also be made accessible to different OEMs. The stackable items accommodate area constraints typical of compact gear whereas providing scalability throughout the product vary.
Central to RogueX3 is Jobsite Companion, an on-machine AI characteristic that employs a proprietary massive language mannequin to ship voice-activated management and steerage, automating over 50 machine capabilities whereas operators keep management of main techniques. Critically, the expertise operates independently of cloud connectivity, addressing the frequent connectivity limitations encountered on development websites.
“Jobsite Companion lowers the barrier to entry for brand spanking new operators whereas serving to skilled professionals work quicker and extra exactly,” says Joel Honeyman, vice chairman of worldwide innovation at Doosan Bobcat. “It’s not simply smarter expertise; it’s a wiser expertise that places expert-level steerage immediately within the cab.”
Additional enhancing operator expertise on the cabbed model of the RogueX3 is a complicated show system incorporating clear MicroLED screens built-in into cab glazing. These overlay 360-degree digicam feeds, efficiency metrics and asset monitoring data immediately throughout the operator’s sight line.
“It’s not simply smarter expertise; it’s a wiser expertise that places expert-level steerage immediately within the cab”
Doosan Bobcat additionally used the RogueX3 to introduce Service.AI, a man-made intelligence platform offering technicians with instantaneous entry to restore procedures, diagnostic protocols and historic service knowledge, which goals to cut back gear downtime.
Whereas the RogueX3 is for the second purely an idea machine, it serves as a showcase for a number of patent-pending improvements which can be sure to search out their means into manufacturing machines quickly. “These improvements aren’t ideas for the distant future; they’re developments which can be shaping how work will get carried out proper now,” says Park. iVT
This text first appeared within the February/March version of iVT
