Rio Tinto’s Mine of the Future

Rio Tinto has plans to increase automation to increase productivity of their mines.

They are looking at automated drills, automated trucks, remote ship loading and automated trains.

There will be over one hundred robotic trucks by 2015. The trucks are driverless and controlled at a central operations center.

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