OreBuddy — on-excavator ore/waste classification

Ore and waste, classified bucket by bucket, before it leaves the face

Material gets sorted after the fact — once it's already blended into the wrong stockpile — because nobody had a call to make at the point of extraction. OreBuddy classifies each bucket in real time and puts the result in front of the operator while they can still act on it.

Face shovel bucket with a camera cone-of-vision overlay showing the on-excavator detection zone

Camera cone-of-vision over the bucket — the zone where material is classified before it's dumped.

Fits

Any digging machine at the face

Camera and processing mount to the machine doing the digging, not a fixed point downstream.

Face shovel Cable shovel FEL Backhoe, boom-mounted

Integration

In the cab, not in a report

Image processing runs onboard the excavator. The classification reaches the operator on the in-cab screen in real time, with the underlying data logged to site systems in open formats over the site network.

In-cab operator screen showing real-time ore and waste classification percentages

The camera

Specified for 24-hour excavator duty

A detection camera built for continuous operation on a working machine, not a lab bench.

Render of the OreBuddy on-excavator detection camera housing

Next step

OreBuddy is designed, manufactured and supported in Newcastle by Robotic Systems.

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