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Caterpillar Building 700-Tonne, Completely Automatic Mega Dump Truck

5:30PM September 10, 2008 | Gizmodo US Edition

Gearheads at Carnegie Mellon University are partnering up with tractor-maker Caterpillar to build the world’s largest robotic dump truck, a 700-tonne ground mover capable of hauling 240 tonnes of earth. In case you can’t wrap your head around that amount, that’s like 33 African bull elephants worth of dirt.

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