Plastic excavators, bulldozers and cranes fueled by imagination have long captivated toddlers. Now, the construction industry is trying to attract teenagers with realistic computer simulators of those ...

Many machine owners would recoil at the idea of letting a novice operator loose on an excavator costing hundreds of thousands of Euros. But how are new operators supposed to improve without hands-on ...

John Deere is rolling out its new construction simulators – further bridging the gap between the classroom and jobsite. The modular update outfits the new simulators to one of six machine types: ...

Devin Stewart operates a large wheel loader simulator made by Caterpillar, at Rocori High School in Cold Spring, Minn., April 5, 2019. To help attract a generation that grew up playing video games, ...