Artificial intelligence being schooled for mining applications

A battery-electric Honda midsize SUV entering production in early 2026 will use Helm.ai's artificial intelligence to facilitate conditional automated driving. The start-up firm's AI technology could soon see its first off-highway application.

“Different driving environments look pretty much the same from an engineering perspective, so the lessons we've learned from [passenger vehicle] autonomous driving can be brought to the mining space in a fairly seamless fashion,” Vladislav Voroninski, cofounder and CEO of Helm.ai, said in an interview with SAE Media.