John Skierka knows his company’s customers work in tenuous, remote areas that can take as much work to reach as it does to get the job done. So Skierka and his team at Great Excavations of Lethbridge, Alberta, developed technology that allows workers to remotely control their equipment, easing the burden of preparing a site and moving several pieces of equipment there.“We use existing equipment and make them work unmanned,” says Skierka, general manager for Great Excavations. “By using the unmanned equipment, we remove a lot of risks.”For example, if a traditional amphibious excavator needed to enter a toxic environment,
