Caterpillar is testing 850,000lb self-driving mining trucks in Illinois in the US. The company has also been working on a similar project with its own autonomous truck called the Intelligent Autonomous Truck (IAT). The company also makes semi-autonomous drills, three of which can be deployed by a single worker. A recent study by the International Institute for Sustainable Development and the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment predicted that automation was likely to replace between 40% and 80% of workers at mines.
Caterpillar is testing 850,000lb self-driving mining trucks in Illinois in the US. The trucks are already in use in mines in Western Australia. The company also makes semi-autonomous drills, three of which can be deployed by a single worker. A recent study by the International Institute for Sustainable Development and the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment predicted that automation was likely to replace between 40% and 80% of workers at mines.