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From imagination to engineering
Throughout history, people have imagined new ways to move, communicate and build. Many of these ideas seemed out of reach, until engineering made them part of everyday life.
At Komatsu, we keep working on the questions that move progress forward. Today, that means exploring how construction equipment and technologies could help people one day build on the moon.
Engineering for Earth and beyond
Before people can live on the moon, infrastructure must be built. That development begins with the essential challenge: How do you build in an environment unlike any on Earth?
As part of Japan’s Space Construction Innovation Project, Komatsu is exploring technologies for future lunar construction, including digital twins that can simulate how equipment may perform in one-sixth gravity, extreme temperatures and pervasive lunar dust.
The work is focused on the moon, but the thinking starts here on Earth, solving difficult construction challenges with technologies that could help shape the future of jobsites everywhere.
Testing lunar construction before machines ever leave Earth.
Designing power systems for places where every unit of energy matters.
Helping operators control machines from any distance.
More than a century of innovation
Japan’s first crawler-type farm tractor helps mechanize work on Earth.
Radio-controlled amphibious bulldozers take construction below the surface.
The world’s first commercial autonomous haulage system begins operation in Chile.
The world’s first hybrid hydraulic excavator captures and reuses energy.
Komatsu begins developing equipment for construction in lunar conditions.
Be part of what's next
Lunar construction raises questions no one has fully answered yet. That is what makes the work meaningful: the opportunity to explore new ideas, challenge assumptions and help shape technologies that could change how construction happens on Earth and beyond.
At Komatsu, progress is built by people working together to solve big challenges — across engineering, technology, manufacturing, service and more.