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Rio Tinto prepares to deploy more driverless trucks

By Ry Crozier

Mar 25 2013 7:00AM

Reveals scope of 'world's largest deployment'.

Rio Tinto prepares to deploy more driverless trucks

Rio Tinto is preparing to bring eight more driverless trucks online at two mine sites in Western Australia as it continues to automate parts of its operations. In a presentation to a Perth conference last week, Rio's Pilbara operations president Greg Lilleyman provided the first major ...

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