Verification register Bio, Health & Neuro
Current reading
The readiness gap, in one scan
AI-assisted assembly · derived results
- Claimed
- 85
- Reported
- 66
- Verified
- 51
- Gap
- +34
Public ambition and stated capability
Observed practitioner reporting
Independently supported evidence
Claimed minus verified
Evidence strength Critical
Decision
What the current evidence supports
Human editorial judgment · 2026-06-28
Too early to adopt
- Why
- The product's maker is defunct and litigation alleged the autonomy 'never worked well' — adopting now carries orphaned-hardware and unsupported-software risk despite the prior commercial-availability claim. Caterpillar's intent is IP/licensing, not continuing the MK-V line.
- Next
- Do not procure MK-V; monitor whether Caterpillar revives the Autodrive stack under its own brand (12-18 mo) before reconsidering.
Constraints
Blockers
No named blocker is present in the current public projection.
Evidence summary
Derived counts
AI-assisted assembly
- Total
- 6
- Tier 1
- 0
- Tier 2
- 4
- Tier 3
- 2
- Supports
- 1
- Contradicts
- 3
- Context
- 2
- Latest observed
- 2026-06-24
Counts and dates only. Raw signals, private excerpts, trust records, and internal corpus material are not published here.
Publication record
Revisions
Initial public reading
This is the initial public reading. No earlier readiness change is recorded.