The world's first largest fleet of autonomous mining trucks with AI and 5G

A large scale operation

Mining is one of the oldest industries in the world and China ends After making a fairly considerable technological leap, in Inner Mongolia China put into operation the largest fleet of fully autonomous electric mining trucks on the planet and the impact of this goes far beyond coal production.

We are talking about vehicles that do not need a human driver, operate with artificial intelligence and are connected by one of the most advanced 5G networks in the world, this technological revolution is called Huaneng Ruichi, the first operating system for autonomous trucks without a cabin has already been implemented on a large scale.

System structure

The operation has 100 unmanned trucks controlled by autonomous systems developed by Huawei in association with the One Name Group. These vehicles transport up to 90 tons of material and operate even under extreme conditions, facing temperatures of up to -40º. Thanks to the integration with advanced 5G networks, the trucks maintain continuous communication with the cloud, allowing real-time tracking or route optimization, preventive diagnosis of failures and coordination between dozens of moving units.

Huawei's CVCS system that controls the entire fleet also performs intelligent battery exchanges and guarantees that the trucks can work 24 hours a day with minimal human intervention. According to the results, these trucks increased transportation efficiency and operate with 120% of the productivity of traditional manned trucks and since they do not have a cavity, no operator needs to be exposed to dangerous environments within the mines.

Accelerating the global digitalization of mining.

It is a new level of operational safety, machines doing the heavy work with precision and without pauses. The key to this transformation is in the advanced 5G network, with upload speeds of 500 MB per second and a latency of only 20 milliseconds. The communication between the vehicle and the control centers is almost instantaneous, this guarantees real-time responses to obstacles, detours or changes in the operation. trucks drastically reduce the emission of pollutants in one of the most ecologically sensitive regions of China and the plan is ambitious.

The Yimin mine wants to expand to 300 trucks in the next 3 years, the expectation is that China will reach 10,000 autonomous mining trucks in operation by 2026 and it is not going to stop there, the technology is already being prepared to be exported to strategic markets such as Africa and Latin America, accelerating the global digitalization of mining.

The largest fleet of autonomous trucks in the world is already operating and has no cabin, does not take breaks, nor needs rest, what we see in the Yimin mine is just the beginning of a new era in mining, an era driven by AI robots and total connectivity and so I leave this one to you to give your opinion, will this be good for humanity or not?