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Can Miners Take Robot Truck Technology From Pit to Main Street?
- Fortescue to study application of know-how in urban settings
- Producer to open research center in Australian Outback city
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Fortescue Metals Group Ltd., the iron ore miner that’s operated giant driverless trucks in Australia for seven years, plans to study opportunities to apply its know-how in the technology to urban settings.
The producer has got the pedigree. Autonomous haul trucks have traveled about 26 million kilometers (16 million miles) at its sites since being introduced in 2012 and it’s planning to add automated ship loaders at ports.