Excavating 2020 style

SAE100Future look: Code-named the “SfinX Project,” Volvo Construction Equipment (CE) has come up with a glimpse of how excavators may evolve over the next two decades. This result is more revolution than evolution.

Code-named the “SfinX Project,” Volvo Construction Equipment (CE) has come up with a glimpse of how excavators may evolve over the next two decades. This result is more revolution than evolution.

“Naturalist Charles Darwin first came up with the idea that species evolved slowly over millions of years, and that only the fittest survived. If a team of designers from Volvo Construction Equipment and Perspectives Design are to be believed, evolution itself has evolved, with “super machines” produced in as little as 20 years. Such is the result of the SfinX Project: to design the excavator of the 2020s. Although the shape is recognizably prehistoric, the total package is space-age hybrid, incorporating the latest research and inventing some of its own.