Several Chinese state-owned companies have completed the paving of the first 157-kilometer, 20-meter-wide section of the Beijing-Hong Kong expressway in Hubei Province. This was achieved entirely through the use of autonomous, self-driving robotic vehicles without any direct human intervention.

Sany Company provided the necessary machinery for the project. All of these machines are equipped with autonomous operating systems and utilize artificial intelligence technologies to complete their tasks and coordinate with other machines.

Among these machines is the SAP200C-10 paving machine, capable of paving multiple lanes due to its 19.25-meter width, improving the paving process and reducing the number of joints between lanes. Additionally, 9 autonomous paving and compaction machines were used, 6 of which weighed 13 tons and 3 weighed 30 tons.

Scheduling algorithms were used to coordinate the work of all these machines, and a high-precision positioning system was employed, allowing them to move with centimeter-level accuracy, resulting in work of a precision that matches and even exceeds that of human workers.

This project represents a significant step towards using advanced technology to complete large-scale projects quickly, automatically, and without direct human intervention.