Giant Unmanned Robotic Mining Trucks in Australia

[Liberty]

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/bed4b2b5a70a

 

Interesting discussion of the tech aspects here:

 

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6269148

[ItsAValueTrap]

Yeah, people have been working on automating mining machines for a long time.  If you read a mine engineering textbook, it's one of the things that they mention.

[Liberty]

Yeah, people have been working on automating mining machines for a long time.  If you read a mine engineering textbook, it's one of the things that they mention.

 

Everything in every industry is getting more automated, I know. I'm not saying it's a new thing, just that it's impressive and cool to learn about  :)