Global autonomous mining truck population tops thousand mark, to reach 1,800 by 2025
Mining News Pro - The number of autonomous haul trucks in operation globally reached 1,068 by May 2022, representing an annual increase of 39%, according to figures tallied by GlobalData. The UK-based data analytics firm also expects this total to exceed 1,800 (a 70% increase on current levels) by the end of 2025.
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Industry-first product supports autonomous mining operations
Mining News Pro - Dust control specialist Global Road Technology (GRT) is launching an industry-first platform developed specifically to support the optimal usage of autonomous vehicles and equipment across the mining sector.
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Mars colonisation depends on autonomous mining
Mining News Pro - Autonomous mining processes hold the key to human colonisation in Mars, which will be possible by 2050 when they become more commercially viable, according to University of New South Wales (UNSW) director of research Serkan Saydam.
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Oxbotica to launch autonomous mining vehicle software
Mining News Pro - Oxbotica plans to accelerate its worldwide deployment of autonomous software for the mining industry after being backed by a suite of global investors.
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Sandvik designs AutoMine Concept for fully autonomous mining
Mining News Pro - Sandvik has showcased Automine Concept, a future vision for fully autonomous mining vehicles that use new sensing capabilities and artificial intelligence (AI) for real-time reactions to their environment.
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Russia starts using 5G network on autonomous mining dump trucks
Mining News Pro - A 5G pilot zone has been deployed for the first time in Russia at a SUEK coal open-pit coal mine in Khakassia to test the potential of 5G as part of an autonomous haulage system developed by Zyfra, the Finnish-Russian industrial digitalisation leader.
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Volvo using NVIDIA technology to test & validate its autonomous mining trucks
Mining News Pro - At its headquarters in Gothenburg, Sweden, Volvo Group this week announced that it is using the NVIDIA DRIVE end-to-end autonomous driving platform to train, test and deploy self-driving AI vehicles, targeting public transport, freight transport, refuse and recycling collection, construction, mining, forestry and more.
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Epiroc releases updated drilling system for autonomous mining
Mining News Pro - Epiroc has introduced the fifth generation of the Rig Control System (RCS) for Pit Viper blasthole drilling rigs, a development it considers to be the “next evolutionary step” towards fully autonomous mining.
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Hitachi advances autonomous mining vision
Mining News Pro - Wenco International Mining Systems will accelerate Hitachi Construction Machinery’s (HCM) autonomous mining plan for an interoperable ecosystem of partners that integrate their systems alongside existing mine infrastructure.
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