![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Excavator</span> Type of construction equipment](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Excavator_Postiguet_Beach_2.jpg/320px-Excavator_Postiguet_Beach_2.jpg)
Excavators are heavy construction equipment primarily consisting of a boom, dipper, bucket and cab on a rotating platform known as the "house" - although the largest form ever, the dragline excavator, eliminated the dipper in favor of a line and winch.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Loader (equipment)</span> Heavy equipment machine](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Front_end_loader_2.jpg/320px-Front_end_loader_2.jpg)
A loader is a heavy equipment machine used in construction to move or load materials such as soil, rock, sand, demolition debris, etc. into or onto another type of machinery.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Heavy equipment</span> Vehicles designed for executing construction tasks](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Tzama02.jpg/320px-Tzama02.jpg)
Heavy equipment, heavy machinery, earthmovers, construction vehicles, or construction equipment, refers to heavy-duty vehicles specially designed to execute construction tasks, most frequently involving earthwork operations or other large construction tasks. Heavy equipment usually comprises five equipment systems: the implement, traction, structure, power train, and control/information.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dragline excavator</span> Piece of heavy equipment used in civil engineering and surface mining](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/HD.11B.110_%2811823129254%29.jpg/320px-HD.11B.110_%2811823129254%29.jpg)
A dragline excavator is a heavy-duty excavator used in civil engineering and surface mining. It was invented in 1904, and presented an immediate challenge to the steam shovel and its diesel and electric powered descendant, the power shovel. Much more efficient than even the largest of the latter, it enjoyed a heyday in extreme size for most of the 20th century, first becoming challenged by more efficient rotary excavators in the 1950s, then superseded by them on the upper end from the 1970s on.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Orenstein & Koppel</span> German engineering company](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/OundK_logo.svg/320px-OundK_logo.svg.png)
Orenstein & Koppel was a major German engineering company specialising in railway vehicles, escalators, and heavy equipment. It was founded on April 1, 1876, in Berlin by Benno Orenstein and Arthur Koppel.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Komatsu Limited</span> Japanese industrial machinery company](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/KOMATSU_Buildng%2C_2017.jpg/320px-KOMATSU_Buildng%2C_2017.jpg)
Komatsu Ltd. or Komatsu (コマツ) is a Japanese multinational corporation that manufactures construction, mining, forestry and military equipment, as well as diesel engines and industrial equipment like press machines, lasers and thermoelectric generators. Its headquarters are in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The corporation was named after the city of Komatsu, Ishikawa Prefecture, where the company was founded in 1921. Worldwide, the Komatsu Group consists of Komatsu Ltd. and 258 other companies.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bucket-wheel excavator</span> Heavy mining excavator](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Garzweiler_Tagebau-1230.jpg/320px-Garzweiler_Tagebau-1230.jpg)
A bucket-wheel excavator (BWE) is a large heavy equipment machine used in surface mining.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marion Power Shovel Company</span> American construction and mining equipment firm](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Marion_Power_Shovel_Company_logo.jpg)
Marion Power Shovel Company was an American firm that designed, manufactured and sold steam shovels, power shovels, blast hole drills, excavators, and dragline excavators for use in the construction and mining industries. The company was a major supplier of steam shovels for the construction of the Panama Canal. The company also built the two crawler-transporters used by NASA for transporting the Saturn V rocket and later the Space Shuttle to their launch pads. The company's shovels played a major role in excavation for Hoover Dam, the Holland Tunnel and the extension of the Number 7 subway line to Main Street in Flushing, Queens.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mobility scooter</span> Mobility aid](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Mobility_scooter_zoo.jpg/320px-Mobility_scooter_zoo.jpg)
A mobility scooter is an electric personal transporter used as mobility aid for people with physical impairment, mostly auxiliary to a powered wheelchair but configured like a motorscooter. When motorized they function as micromobility devices and are commonly referred to as a powered vehicle/scooter, or electric scooter. Non-motorized mobility scooters are less common, but are intended for the estimated 60% of wheelchair users who have at least some use of their legs. Whilst leg issues are commonly assumed to be the reason for using scooters, the vehicles are used by those with a wide range of conditions from spinal injuries to neurological disorders.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hilti</span> Multinational company](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Hilti_Schaan.jpg/320px-Hilti_Schaan.jpg)
Hilti Corporation is a Liechtensteiner multinational company that develops, manufactures, and markets products for the construction, building maintenance, energy and manufacturing industries, mainly to the professional end-user. It concentrates mainly on anchoring systems, fire protection systems, installation systems, measuring and detection tools, power tools and related software and services.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Landship</span> Large land vehicle](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Panorama_F60Museum.jpg/320px-Panorama_F60Museum.jpg)
A landship is a large land vehicle that travels exclusively on land. Its name is meant to distinguish it from vehicles that travel through other mediums such as conventional ships, airships, and spaceships.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bucyrus-Erie</span> Defunct American mining equipment company](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6e/Bucyrus-Erie_logo.svg/320px-Bucyrus-Erie_logo.svg.png)
Bucyrus-Erie was an American surface and underground mining equipment company. It was founded as Bucyrus Foundry and Manufacturing Company in Bucyrus, Ohio, in 1880. Bucyrus moved its headquarters to South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1893. In 1927, Bucyrus merged with the Erie Steam Shovel Company to form Bucyrus-Erie. In 1997, it was renamed Bucyrus International, Inc. In 2010 the enterprise was purchased by Caterpillar in a US$7.6 billion transaction that closed on July 8, 2011. At the time of its acquisition, the Bucyrus product line included a range of material removal and material handling products used in both surface and underground mining.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hexapod (robotics)</span> Type of robot](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Beetle_robot.jpg/320px-Beetle_robot.jpg)
A six-legged walking robot should not be confused with a Stewart platform, a kind of parallel manipulator used in robotics applications.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Power shovel</span> Bucket-equipped machine used for digging and loading earth](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Rope_shovel.gif/320px-Rope_shovel.gif)
A power shovel, also known as a motor shovel, stripping shovel, front shovel, mining shovel or rope shovel, is a bucket-equipped machine usually powered by steam, diesel fuel, gasoline or electricity and used for digging and loading earth or fragmented rock and for mineral extraction. Power shovels are a type of rope/cable excavator, where the digging arm is controlled and powered by winches and steel ropes, rather than hydraulics like in the modern hydraulic excavators. Basic parts of a power shovel include the track system, cabin, cables, rack, stick, boom foot-pin, saddle block, boom, boom point sheaves and bucket. The size of bucket varies from 0.73 to 53 cubic meters.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wheelchair</span> Chair with wheels used by people with mobility deficiencies](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Man_in_wheelchair_with_AFO_braces_and_crutches.jpg/320px-Man_in_wheelchair_with_AFO_braces_and_crutches.jpg)
A wheelchair is a mobilized form of chair using 2 or more wheels, a footrest and armrest usually cushioned. It is used when walking is difficult or impossible to do due to illnesses, injury, disabilities, or age related health conditions.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Motorized wheelchair</span> Wheelchair propelled by electric motor](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Pride_Jazzy_Select_power_chair_001.JPG/320px-Pride_Jazzy_Select_power_chair_001.JPG)
A motorized wheelchair, powerchair, electric wheelchair or electric-powered wheelchair (EPW) is a wheelchair that is propelled by means of an electric motor rather than manual power. Motorized wheelchairs are useful for those unable to propel a manual wheelchair or who may need to use a wheelchair for distances or over terrain which would be fatiguing in a manual wheelchair. They may also be used not just by people with 'traditional' mobility impairments, but also by people with cardiovascular and fatigue-based conditions.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Link-Belt Cranes</span> American company](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/64/Link-Belt_Cranes_logo_%282018%29.png/320px-Link-Belt_Cranes_logo_%282018%29.png)
Link-Belt Cranes is an American industrial company that develops and manufactures heavy construction equipment, specializing in telescopic and lattice boom cranes. Link-Belt is headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky, and is a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate, Sumitomo Heavy Industries.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">VP Bank</span> Private bank based in Liechtenstein](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/VP_Bank_Logo.svg/320px-VP_Bank_Logo.svg.png)
VP Bank AG is a Liechtenstein-based bank headquartered in Vaduz and specialized in private banking. It was founded on April 6, 1956 by Princely Councillor of Commerce Guido Feger and is one of the three major banks in Liechtenstein along with the LGT Group and the LLB.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Walking vehicle</span> Vehicles that use legs rather than wheels, wings or hulls, for land locomotion](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/WalkingMachine_USArmyTransportationMuseum_DSCN7543.JPG/320px-WalkingMachine_USArmyTransportationMuseum_DSCN7543.JPG)
A walking vehicle is a vehicle that moves on legs rather than wheels or tracks. Walking vehicles have been constructed with anywhere from one to more than eight legs. There are many designs for the leg mechanisms of walking machines that provide foot trajectories with different properties.
A crawler excavator, also known as a track-type excavator or tracked excavator, is a type of heavy construction equipment primarily used for excavation and earthmoving tasks. It is characterized by its tracked undercarriage, which provides superior mobility and traction compared to wheeled excavators, especially in soft, uneven, or unstable terrain..