Autonomous Trucks
IM Editorial Director Paul Moore recently had the chance to visit Anglo American’s Los Bronces Integrated Remote Operations Centre in downtown Santiago, meeting with Cristobal Mimica, Autonomy Project Manager, Los Bronces along with Victoria Madrid-Salvador, IROC Superintendent and Andres Reyes, IROC Specialist. Victoria Madrid-Salvador told IM that Los Bronces chose to use the Optalert glasses-based iris-dilation monitoring system. This will load the Los Bronces autonomous Komatsu 930E trucks, which are already running on the Komatsu FrontRunner AHS. And the El Sodado mine will be able to use learnings from Los Bronces when it comes to automate the fleet there. What about the potential for the nuGen™ zero emissions FCEV truck in Chile, which was developed by Anglo American and First Mode?