AUTONOMOUS SOLUTION SALES INCREASE DURING COVID19

While COVID 19 pandemic Mining industry has already has hampered the sale of mining equipment, it is being driving trucks, autonomous credited to drive the demand blast drills, loaders and of Autonomous Driving remote operation of load Technology adopted technologies for self haul-dump machinery. Now, Caterpillar has seen double- the occurrence of lockdowns digit percentage increase in its sale of autonomous mining technology in 2020 as compared to 2019. Fred Rio (Caterpillar's product manager) has told that remote control tech would be available for construction sites in January. The company is also working with Space Agencies to make the intercontinental remote control of machines possible. has accelerated their deployment. Caterpillar & Komatsu hold a large share of global autonomous haulage systems. Caterpillar here has an advantage, as its technology can be retrofitted onto competitor's equipment. Whereas, Komatsu is being reported to develop technology that would allow equipments of different brands to operate together 'safely and efficiently'.

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