Waytous with CASIC Aerospace Heavy Industry · autonomous mining truck
Driverless MT4400 220-tonne haul trucks
Baorixile mine
Waytous, a spin-out of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Automation, supplied the driverless software and Aerospace Heavy Industry rebuilt the steering, braking, drive, dump and lighting controls of 220-tonne MT4400 electric-drive mine trucks, adding sensors, positioning and 5G links. The trucks work in a five-truck platoon alongside an electric shovel and support vehicles, watched by a safety officer.
- Price
- —retrofit system sold to mine operators; no price published
- Autonomy
- DriverlessHow it runs
- Driverless
- In serviceSince by January 2022 Waytous claimed 'safety officer out of the cab' mixed operation with crewed trucks at Huaneng Yimin (PEdaily, Jan 2022); at Baorixile a safety officer still monitored in early 2021
- Fleet
- 5Reported; details below
- Speed
- —Not published
- Payload
- 220000 kgCarries more than 50%
Why it matters
Billed by the project partners as the world's first platoon of large driverless haul trucks working in extreme cold (down to minus 50 C) and China's first five-truck driverless haulage over a 5G network.
Real-world use
Five 220-tonne MT4400 electric-drive trucks were converted from May 2020 at China Energy's Baorixile open-pit coal mine in Inner Mongolia and were hauling day and night by January 2021 (China Securities Journal, Feb 2021); Waytous said it had delivered more than 200 driverless vehicles by January 2022 (PEdaily, Jan 2022).
Timeline
- Released
- 2021-01
Maker
Waytous with CASIC Aerospace Heavy IndustryCompanyHow it drives
Fleet and city figures move fast; each carries its date and who reported it.
- Driverless status
- Driverless in service
- Where it runs
- Baorixile open-pit coal mine (Inner Mongolia); Waytous also cites Huaneng Yimin mine (Inner Mongolia), the Weijiamao mine and SCG sites in Thailand
- Driverless since
- by January 2022 Waytous claimed 'safety officer out of the cab' mixed operation with crewed trucks at Huaneng Yimin (PEdaily, Jan 2022); at Baorixile a safety officer still monitored in early 2021
- Fleet
- 5 MT4400 trucks at Baorixile (2021); more than 200 driverless vehicles delivered across sites (Waytous via PEdaily/Gasgoo, Jan 2022); 14 more dump trucks contracted at Weijiamao (Gasgoo, Feb 2025)
How it stacks up
Against other mining that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Driverless MT4400 220-tonne haul trucks (Baorixile mine) carries more than 50% of the 4 other mining that publish a payload. Bars show the 4 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, weight, speed, joints, battery, price.
Public attention
How much public attention Driverless MT4400 220-tonne haul trucks (Baorixile mine) gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- No recent press stories listed yet
- about 4,400 units or vehicles reported by the maker or press (may be a company-wide total)
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-13; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
No component details published yet.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- How it runs
- Fully autonomous. Does its job with nobody at the controls.
From the maker
Driverless MT4400 220-tonne haul trucks (Baorixile mine) is the only vehicle from Waytous (Huituo) with CASIC Aerospace Heavy Industry in the atlas.
Made, sold and where
No production or sales figures published yet.
- Price
- Not publishedretrofit system sold to mine operators; no price published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every robot: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. Few robots match closely, so these are the nearest matches. How we choose
| Measure | Driverless MT4400 220-tonne haul trucks (Baorixile mine)Waytous (Huituo) with CASIC Aerospace Heavy Industry | No public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useHitachi AHS on EH5000AC-3Hitachi Construction MachinerySame job: coal mining · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots |
|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2020-05 | 2018-07 |
| Status | Commercial | Commercial |
| Height | — | — |
| Weight | — | — |
| Joints | — | — |
| Speed | — | — |
| Payload | 220000 kg | 300000 kg |
| Battery | — | — |
| Price | — | — |
Sources
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