Mine sites are increasingly adopting environmentally friendly autonomous alternatives to address a labour shortfall.
Jevons Robotics and RCT recently introduced their ARTEV6000 vehicle. Both companies hope the battery electric, automated, line-of-sight and tele remote control technology will remove safety and staffing challenges from mine sites.
“The job in its manual state is well-known as being high risk, which also makes the role difficult to not only recruit for but then retain the staff,” both companies said in a public statement.
“[This is] a safer alternative to carrying out blast quality assurance, loading or stemming, replacing it with a single battery electric machine able to carry out the process on any bench condition including severely contoured or cavity filled ground.”
The technology is also promised to eliminate the need for employees to perform quality assurance or manually load blast holes. This is touted to remove exposure hours associated with highwalls, cavities and fatigue.
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