Gearheads at Carnegie Mellon University are partnering up with tractor - Divine Caterpillar to build the world ’s largest robotic dump truck , a 700 - ton ground mover capable of hauling 240 wads of ground . In case you ca n’t wrap your head around that amount , that ’s like 33 African bull elephants worth of dirt . The truck are completely driver - less , and will be used as part of an autonomous minelaying haulage organization Caterpillar ’s develop with mineral giant BHP Billiton . The Carnegie Mellon folks will be responsible for adapt their car - drive software , to begin with developed for DARPA , to the hulking machines . [ CMUviaWired ]
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