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World's first fully autonomous mining operation
- georgecmu 10y ago1. Should be marked (2015). 2. The title is poorly editorialized. This mine only has ordered autonomous Komatsu trucks (just like BHP and Fortescue got autonomous Caterpillar trucks way back when [1]). This doesn't make the mine fully autonomous. It has a potential to become fully autonomous when every vehicle becomes autonomous, but when this press release was issued at best it was an aspiration. [1] https://www.australianmining.com.au/news/fortescue-install-automated-trucks-at-its-solomon-hub-kings-mine/ https://www.australianmining.com.au/news/fortescue-install-a...