Deployment
Cat 793F Command for Hauling at Australia
The Cat 793F Command for Hauling is Caterpillar's flagship autonomous mining truck (240 metric tonnes payload), part of the Command suite. It uses GPS, radar, and LIDAR for navigation across open-pit mine haul roads without a driver. Caterpillar has deployed 500+ autonomous trucks across BHP, Fortescue, and other Tier 1 mining operators in Australia and the Americas.
Cat 793F Command for Hauling by Caterpillar · Operated by Fortescue Metals Group · Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verified
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /deployments/cat-793f-fortescue-pilbara.md
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/robots/4f379ebd-c8d7-4af3-9dba-58a6be17a0ea
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
- Trust tier
- Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verified
- Last updated
- 2026-06-12
- Model
- Cat 793F Command for Hauling
- Company
- Caterpillar
- Location
- Australia
- Operator
- Fortescue Metals Group
- Status
- operational
- First seen
- 2018-01-01
- ID
4f379ebd-c8d7-4af3-9dba-58a6be17a0ea
Sources (2)
- Caterpillar 4 billion tonnes milestone, 2024 · https://www.caterpillar.com/en/news/caterpillarNews/2024/caterpillar-reaches-milestone-4-billion-tonnes-autonomous-haulage.html
- Fortescue 100% autonomous haul, 2022 · https://www.fortescue.com/news-and-media/news/2022/fortescue-hits-industry-first-100-autonomous-haul-operations
Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-06-12
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-06-12
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: commercial
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: truck
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Cat 793F Command for Hauling at Australia.Common questions
- What is the Cat 793F Command for Hauling deployment at Australia?
- Cat 793F Command for Hauling, built by Caterpillar, is recorded as a deployment at Australia on the DEPLOY registry. Fortescue Metals Group operates the deployment.
- Who operates Cat 793F Command for Hauling at Australia?
- Fortescue Metals Group operates this deployment as a customer of Caterpillar, the manufacturer of Cat 793F Command for Hauling.
- When did the Cat 793F Command for Hauling deployment at Australia go live?
- The deployment is recorded as starting January 1, 2018 on the DEPLOY registry. Earlier activity may exist but is not yet sourced.
- Have there been incidents at the Cat 793F Command for Hauling deployment at Australia?
- No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.
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