Experts of the Skolkovo Foundation had approved the “Intellectual Mine” project. This project will be developed in partnership with Research Institute of Comprehensive Exploitation of Mineral Resources of RAS (Russian Academy of Sciences), mining companies, mining equipment manufactories and producers of asset management software solutions for asset intensive industries, communication vendors
Caterpillar has made a key announcement on the progress of its autonomous truck program. Together with Australian dealer, WesTrac, CAT has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Fortescue Metals Group to implement an autonomous mining solution for Fortescue’s new Solomon iron ore mine.
Rio Tinto doubles its fleet of driverless haul trucks at its iron ore operations in Western Australia and deploy them at Yandicoogina, the largest mine in the Pilbara.