EACON has passed 4,000 mining trucks deployed with its ORCASTRA autonomous haulage system (AHS) across Chinese mine sites, more than doubling the fleet count of its nearest competitor. The scale-up, focused on large open-pit coal and iron ore operations using 90–220 t class rigid trucks, signals rapid normalisation of AHS for production haulage rather than limited pilots. For mine planners and OEMs, this volume stresses interoperability, traffic management algorithms, and brownfield haul road design suitable for high-density autonomous fleets.

Tier IV has started joint development with Komatsu on autonomous driving systems for three quarry-class dump truck models, targeting deployment at quarrying and civil engineering sites in Japan and North America. The work, led through Tier IV subsidiary EARTHBRAIN Inc, builds on a collaboration with Komatsu that began in September 2025 and aims to move beyond mine-haul fleets into smaller, mixed-traffic operations. For operators, the project signals upcoming autonomy options on rigid trucks and articulated dump trucks suited to short-haul quarry cycles and tighter benches.

ALLU is introducing a new high-capacity coal bucket designed to process coal and associated waste rock, clay and other impurities directly on smaller carrier machines, cutting out separate loading, haulage, crushing and screening stages. By integrating sizing and impurity separation at the face, the attachment targets in-pit coal conditioning where conventional fixed or semi-mobile crushers are impractical or underutilised. The concept is aimed at reducing double-handling, shortening haul distances and enabling more flexible deployment on smaller excavators or loaders in constrained pits and stockyards.