TECHNOLOGY

Gudai-Darri training boost

AN EQUIPMENT simulator company once closely linked with Caterpillar and now owned by Komatsu is helping a Rio Tinto mine train workers who will be interacting with Caterpillar autonomous haul trucks.

Immersive Technologies' LX6 simulator.

Immersive Technologies' LX6 simulator.

Rio Tinto helped pioneer the use of autonomous haul trucks in mining, using Komatsu trucks controlled by Modular Mining's Despatch system in the early 2000s. At its Gudai-Darri iron ore mine in Western...

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