Richard Ahlfeld & Brandon Hootman | CoreWeave Fully Connected 2026
In this interview from Fully Connected 2026, Brandon Hootman, vice president of physical AI platforms and construction autonomy at Caterpillar, joins Richard Ahlfeld, senior vice president of physical AI at CoreWeave, to talk with theCUBE's John Furrier and Dave Vellante about the infrastructure powering physical AI and construction autonomy. Hootman explains how Caterpillar's autonomy systems evolved from the structured, deterministic world of mining to the chaotic, unstructured nature of construction job sites. He traces the company's path from its Cat AI Assistant to building physical AI th…