Rio rolls out the robot trucks Within a decade, most mines operated by global miners would be fully automated, according to Brian Fisher, managing director of Canberra-based consultancy BA Economics and former head of the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics. Dr Fisher, who co-wrote a landmark 2012 study on mine automation commissioned by Rio Tinto, told The Australian the mining industry was making “steady, incremental improvements”, primarily in software and processes. “Some things are harder to automate,” he said. “For example, driving the big front-end loaders that load a haul truck in a pit is still best done by a person.” Full story >>>bit.ly/1w7kAyM
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 01:08:57 +0000
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