Vox pop: Brain vs brawn

Our sister publication Mining Journal hosted a webinar with automation expert Missy Cummings in October last year. During a one-hour interview which is still accessible to subscribers, Cummings made the point that: “We are automating rules-based, low-skill jobs that don’t require a lot of thinking, but what we’re not automating are those jobs that require a lot of decision making and reasoning under uncertainty.”

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Sandvik's AutoMine system for automated loading and hauling seen in action

Mining Magazine put this statement to the people we interviewed for our automation feature (to be published in the September edition), and asked: How accurate is this statement; and how far away are