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Mining & Resources · Recorded milestone

Driverless haul trucks

Recorded year2008

Rio Tinto runs autonomous trucks in Pilbara iron-ore mines.

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Built on

GPSRecorded · 1995enables
Self-driving car challengeRecorded · 2005enables

Led to

Deep-sea nodule miningRecorded · 2022enables
Robotic deep-crust miningForecast · ~2032enables

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.