{"id":30555,"date":"2016-09-27T10:50:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T17:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/komatsus-robotic-mining-truck-completely-dumps-the-driver"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:25:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:25:19","slug":"komatsus-robotic-mining-truck-completely-dumps-the-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/komatsus-robotic-mining-truck-completely-dumps-the-driver","title":{"rendered":"Komatsu\u2019s robotic mining truck completely dumps the driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SNelRmmPpls?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Komatsu\u2019s latest autonomous truck fully embraces the notion of unmanned operation by ditching the cabin and adopting a design that optimizes load distribution and doesn\u2019t distinguish between forwards and backwards.<\/p>\n<p>Komatsu began trials of its Autonomous Haulage Systems (AHS) in a partnership with mining company Rio Tinto in 2008, and since then the technology has hauled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riotinto.com\/media\/media-releases-237_10603.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">hundreds of millions<\/a> of tonnes of material in Chile and Australia\u2019s Pilbara region.<\/p>\n<p>The autonomous haul trucks like the 930E model used by Rio Tinto incorporate controls, wireless networking and obstacle detection to enable unmanned operation, but they still look like conventional mining trucks complete with driver cabins.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/komatsu-autonomous-truck-mining\/45627\/\">http:\/\/newatlas.com\/komatsu-autonomous-truck-mining\/45627\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Komatsu\u2019s latest autonomous truck fully embraces the notion of unmanned operation by ditching the cabin and adopting a design that optimizes load distribution and doesn\u2019t distinguish between forwards and backwards. Komatsu began trials of its Autonomous Haulage Systems (AHS) in a partnership with mining company Rio Tinto in 2008, and since then the technology has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60256,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30555\/revisions\/60256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}