Autonomous Solutions

In April 2013, a massive landslide[6] rocked the Bingham Canyon Mine (Kennecott Utah Copper/Rio Tinto Group). Between 135-165 million tons shifted, collapsing one side of the world's largest open pit mine. The mine had been previously evacuated resulting in no human casualties, but the slide destroyed the visitor's center and buried millions of dollars of equipment at the bottom of the mine. Kennecott went to work immediately assessing the damage and looking at options to initiate cleanup on the unstable terrain.

Autonomous Solutions was contacted to assist in the cleanup efforts by providing remote control automation for 6 excavators (four CAT 375D and two CAT 390D). The excavators were used to safely move millions of tons of material from the most unstable areas at the top of the slide area.[7]

On June 14, 2013, Ford Motor Company issued a press release detailing their robotic durability testing program. Each new model that Ford releases must first go through extensive durability and endurance testing to ensure that the vehicle meets Ford's safety and quality standards. Unfortunately, some of the testing environments were creating health concerns for human test drivers, causing abbreviated shifts and slowdowns in testing output.

Ford's solution was the robotic durability testing program[8][9][10][11] which allows vehicles to be tested on the most punishing test tracks at nearly the same productivity as other tracks. Leveraging ASI's vehicle automation products, Ford is able to match or exceed human driver accuracy, and run testing 24/7.

The Los Angeles Police Department[12] contracted Autonomous Solutions to provide the automation piece for a teleoperated CAT telehandler. The telehandler, named BatCat, has seen action in several high profile situations involving bomb threats[13] and active shooters.[14]