TIL: Australia was the first to use it and is leading in autonomous mining
TIL: Australia was the first to use it and is leading in autonomous mining
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Driverless trucks move iron ore at automated Rio Tinto mines
I was reading how China had started to test unmanned trucks, and in researching found that Australia was already a decade ahead.
(2014) Rio Tinto: rolling out the world’s first fully driverless mines
(2018) World-first autonomous trains deployed at Rio Tinto’s iron ore operations - This one is also apparently the 'worlds biggest robot'
(2021) Rio Tinto to deploy world’s first fully autonomous water trucks at Gudai-Darri